A protester in Jamaica holds a sign during a rally to demand that the United Kingdom make reparations for slavery - GILBERT BELLAMY/Reuters Caribbean nations are set to demand that Britain make ...

Mukunda Ramarao faced this question whenever he tried, late in life, to ask about his family’s past. At 82, the Hyderabad-based academic and technologist has finally answered that question for himself ...

During his visit to Mauritius on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was welcomed with a heartfelt performance of Geet Gawai, a traditional Bhojpuri musical art form. Recognised by Unesco as an ...

THE indentured labour system became part of the new imperial economy of the 19th and 20th centuries, transporting indentured workers from India and China to the Mascarene Islands, the Caribbean, the ...

South Africa's High Commissioner to India, Professor Anil Sooklal, has revealed the possibility for dual memorials to commemorate the indentured Indian labourers who arrived in South Africa more than ...

Indentured servants first arrived in America in the decade following the settlement of Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607. The idea of indentured servitude was born of a need for cheap labor.