Guiana 1838
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Director Rohit Jagessar Writer Rohit Jagessar Language English | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 2004 Cast Aarti Bathija , Thomas Garvey , Kumar Gaurav Genres Indie film, Drama film, Political drama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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During the 19th century, one million East Indians become slaves in the West Indies.
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Guiana 1838 is a 2004 American feature film directed by Rohit Jagessar, starring Kumar Gaurav.
The abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean in 1834 prompts Gillanders, Arbuthnot & Company in Calcutta, a part of the East India Company, to recruit Coolies from India to fill the resulting labor void. The company hires Sinha, a fierce small-timer to sell dreams of El Dorado to the unsuspecting, impoverished Coolies who are signed to five-year contracts as indentured servants. Upon the Coolies' arrival in British Guiana in 1838, the British planters promptly enslave them to ensure that the growth of sugar in the British West Indies will continue uninterrupted. John Scoble of the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society arrives on the colony a year later to discover a new form of slavery; this time on the backs of Indians.
Plot
Guiana 1838 tells the story of Indians arriving on the British colony of British Guiana, now Guyana, as indentured servants amidst the abolition of slavery during the nineteenth century.
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