From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Guyanese/Subhas Ramcharan
For a brief history of Guyana, one of the best works is R. Smith, British Guiana (London, 1962). Other works that deal with slavery, Indian indenture, and the post-slavery period in Guyana include R. Farley, The Rise of the Peasantry in British Guiana (London, 1950); A. Niehoff, East Indians in the West Indies (Milwaukee, Wis., 1960); and H. Tinker, A New System of Slavery: The Export Indian Labour Overseas (London, 1974). For an analysis of modern Guyana, V. Sagar, ed., Mother India: Children Abroad (New Delhi, 1988) is useful.
Studies on the history of Guyanese in Canada include G. Kurian and R. Srivastava, eds., Overseas Indians: A Study in Adaptation (New Delhi, 1983); F. Birbalsingh, ed., Indenture and Exile: The Indo-Caribbean Experience (Toronto, 1989); R. Ghosh and R. Kanungo, eds., South Asian Canadians: Current Issues in the Politics of Culture (Montreal, 1992); and J. Walker, The West Indians in Canada (Ottawa, 1984).
In terms of the social and economic adaptation of Guyanese in Canada, the literature includes W. Anderson, Caribbean Immigrants: A Socio-Demographic Profile (Toronto, 1990); R. Chodos, The Caribbean Connection (Toronto, 1977); and S. Ramcharan, Racism: Non-Whites in Canada (Toronto, 1982). An analysis of the cultural organization of the Indo-Guyanese group can be found in Milton Israel, In the Further Soil: A Social History of Indo-Canadians in Ontario (Toronto, 1994).
Weekly newspapers established in the 1980s in Metropolitan Toronto are distributed to West Indians and Guyanese communities throughout Canada. They contain information on social and cultural events and news pertaining to both Canada and the home countries. Indo-Caribbean World caters to Indo-Caribbeans, the vast majority of whom originate in Guyana and Trinidad. The journal Indo-Caribbean Review (Toronto, 1994–), attempts to provide a multi-disciplinary analysis of Indo-Caribbean issues both in Canada and in other host countries.
