Indians in Guyana
Basdeo Mangru

Copyright 1999
International Standard Book Number: 0-9670093-0-8

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Basdeo Mangru, the first M.A. graduate of the University of Guyana and former lecturer there, received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of Benevolent Neutrality: Indian Government Policy and Labour Migration to British Guyana, 1854-1884 (London, 1987); Indenture and Abolition: Sacrifice and Survival on the Guyanese Sugar Plantations (Toronto, 1993) and A History of East Indian Resistance on the Guyana Sugar Estates, 1869-1948 (New York, 1996). He has also published extensively in refereed journals and in anthologies. Dr. Mangru has won several awards and distinctions, including the Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship in the United Kingdom (1978-1981) and the prestigious Rockefeller Residency Program in the Humanities, Asian-American Center, Queens College, City University of New York, (1990-1991). Dr. Mangru is a biographee in Dictionary of International Biography and in several Marquis Who's Who publications. He is currently tenured Social Studies teacher at John Adams High School, NYC, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of History at York College, CUNY.