Indians in French Guiana
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Indians in French Guiana are mostly descendants of indentured labourers from India who now lives in the French Overseas Department of French Guiana
. They are often referred to as Indians or East Indians. East Indians made up of 4% of the popution.
such as Pondicherry, Karaikal
and Yanam
. Labour from India began to enter French Guiana beginning in 1862. By the mid-1880s, however, the British stopped shipments of Indians in response to allegations that the French were ill treating indentured the Indian workers under their employ.
In recent years, In recent years, immigrants of East Indian origin have been arriving from French Guiana's neighboring countries such as Guyana
, Suriname
& Trinidad and Tobago
.
French Guiana
French Guiana is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department located on the northern Atlantic coast of South America. It has borders with two nations, Brazil to the east and south, and Suriname to the west...
. They are often referred to as Indians or East Indians. East Indians made up of 4% of the popution.
Migration History
The Indian coomunity in French Guiana are mostly descendants of indentured workers and immigrants from French Indian coloniesFrench India
French India is a general name for the former French possessions in India These included Pondichéry , Karikal and Yanaon on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast, and Chandannagar in Bengal...
such as Pondicherry, Karaikal
Karaikal
Karaikal is a major port city of east coast of India and a municipality in Karaikal district in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, India. Several explanations are offered for the word 'Karaikal'. The imperial Gazetteer gives it the meaning 'fish pass'. According to Julien vinson the town is said...
and Yanam
Yanam (Inde française)
Yanam or Yanaon was a French colony between 1731 and 1954. Yanam has some 300 years of history and is well known as French Yanam after it was transferred to Indian Union in 1954.-Early years:...
. Labour from India began to enter French Guiana beginning in 1862. By the mid-1880s, however, the British stopped shipments of Indians in response to allegations that the French were ill treating indentured the Indian workers under their employ.
In recent years, In recent years, immigrants of East Indian origin have been arriving from French Guiana's neighboring countries such as Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
, Suriname
Suriname
Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...
& Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...
.
See also
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- Indo-MartiniquaisIndo-MartiniquaisIndo-Martiniquais are residents of the French Overseas Department of Martinique who have Indian descent. A majority are descendants of indentured labourers from India who were brought to the island in the nineteenth century...
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