Tag: India

Indian Matchmaking, Caste, and the South Asian Diaspora with Yashica Dutt

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February 25, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Zoom link Yashica Dutt is a leading anti-caste journalist and the author of Coming Out as Dalit. She spent a decade covering arts, culture, and fashion in New Delhi and a lifetime hiding her Dalitness to pass as ‘upper’ caste. Until she ‘came out’ as Dalit in a Facebook note …

Indo-Caribbean Migration, Cultural Continuity, Change and Identity Formation

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March 4, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Zoom link Between 1838 and 1920 western colonial governments transported about 500,000 indentured Asians from India to the Caribbean. The arrival of these indentured laborers was in response to a labor shortage emerging from the gradual withdrawal of newly freed Africans from plantation agriculture. The indentured laborers were …