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First Name
Maria del Pilar
Last Name
Kaladeen
Affiliation
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Website URL
https://mariadelpilarkaladeen.com
Keywords
Indenture, Colonialism, British Empire, Caribbean Studies, Indian-Caribbean Literature, Indenture to Windrush
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About Me

MARIA DEL PILAR KALADEEN I am an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies specialising in the system of Indian indenture in Guyana (1838-1917).  I have edited two anthologies of creative responses to the system of Indian indenture.

https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/indenture-to-windrush#

Recent Publications

The Other Windrush, Legacies of Indenture in Britain’s Caribbean Empire Pluto Press (London:2021)

Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond University of London Press (London:2020)

‘Invisible Passengers’ in the anthology Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children  published by Headline (London: 2018)

We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture

SAS Publications (London:2018)

‘Windrushed’ in Wasafiri  Volume 94, 2018

Media Coverage
https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/how-britain-used-india-replace-slave-labor
Country Focus
Guyana 1838-1917
Expertise by Geography
Caribbean
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Colonialism, Migration & Immigration