Notes on the Editors and Contributors - A Note on Nomenclature - Introduction by David Dabydeen and Brinsley Samaroo - PART 1: RACE RELATIONS: East Indian-Creole Relations in Trinidad and Guiana in the late Nineteenth-Century;Malcolm Cross - Race and Ethnic-Relations in Burnhamite Guyana;Ralph Premdas - Control, Resistance, Accommodation and Race Relations: Aspects of Indentureship Experience of East Indian Immigrants in Jamaica, 1845-1921;Verene A. Shepherd - PART II: RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL PRACTICES: Hindu Elements in the Shango/Orisha Cult of Trinidad;Noorkumar Mahabir and Ashram Maharaj - 'Official' and 'popular' Hinduism in the Caribbean: Historial and Contemporary Trends in Suriname, Trinidad and Guyana;Steven Vertovec - Authenticity and Authority in Surinamese Hindu Ritual;Peter van der Veer - PART III: BIOGRAPHY: Cheddi Jagan: The Writings of a Visionary Politican;Frank Birbalsingh - PART IV: Early History: Indian Government Policy Towards Indentured Labour Migration to the Sugar Colonies;Basdeo Mangru - The Repatriates;Marianne Soares Ramesar - Early African and East Indian Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago;Brinsley Samaroo - Select bibliography - Index