Q 15. How did Indentured workers discover their own ways of survival?
- Workers discovered their own ways of surviving.
- Many of them escaped into the wilds and if caught they faced severe punishment.
- Others developed new forms of individual and collective self expression, blending with different cultural forms, old and new.
- In Trinidad the annual Muharram procession was transformed into a riotous carnival called ‘Hosay’ (for Imam Hussain) in which workers of all races and religions joined.
- The protest religion of Rastafarianism (made famous by the Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley) also reflects social and cultural links with Indian migrants to the Caribbean.
