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Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers. 1845-1917

"Arriving in Saint Vincent". UNESCO - MOWLAC, 2020 / Documentary Heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean. Memory of the World Regional Register, 2000-2018
Country: Fiji Guyana Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago
Registration Year: 2011
Institution type: Archives
ID: 61/2011
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Document type: Manuscripts Photographs/Images
Document theme: Indentureship
Gender: Does not contribute to gender equality (or only marginally)

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Nomination Form

The Records of the Indian Indentured Labourers comprise the most detailed documentation of the indentureship system, the colonial powers and its consequences for the human rights of the labourers. They constitute a body of documentation which details personal information of a mass of people who were contracted as cheap indentured labourers. This information is the only source of genealogy for each of the "Girmityas" (descendents of indentured labourers from India). The records date from 1832-1962 and can be found in Fiji (1879-1962), Guyana (1838-1917), Suriname (1853-1946) and Trinidad and Tobago (1845-1917). 

Inscribed on the Memory of the World Regional Register for Latin America and the Caribbean and on the MoW International Register in 2011, this nomination was presented by the National Archives (Guyana), the National Archives (Suriname), the National Archives (Trinidad and Tobago) and The National Archives (Fiji). In 2017 an addendum nominated by Saint Vincent and the Granadines was also approved.

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