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Book Description
From Calcutta to Trinidad they went, the girmitiyas, crossing two oceans to
reach their new homes on the other side of the world. Jahajin illuminates for us
the extraordinary experience of that journey: the train ride from Faizabad to
Calcutta, the passage down the Hooghly, the three-month voyage around the stormy
Cape and up the Atlantic to Trinidad, where the weary migrants settled into life
as indentured labourers on the sugar estates.The novel opens with the narrator,
a young linguist, talking to 110-year-old Deeda, who came to the Caribbean on
the same ship as her great-great grandmother. Deeda speaks of leaving her
village in Basti with her
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9788172237141
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Harper Collins : Uk
Publishing Date 2007
Product Edition 1