Prayer in the Suriname-Javanese Diasporic Experience
Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience The Surinam-Javanese community in the Netherlands is divided over the question of the prayer direction; some perform their prayers…
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Research: Guyana Junction, globalisation, localisation, and the production of East Indianness
Guyana Junction, globalisation, localisation, and the production of East Indianness Guyana Junction involves the analysis of the construction of East Indian ethnic and religious distinction…
Canadian Donation to benefit Guyanese Orphans
Georgetown May 30th 2008:- The Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG) today received a CDN $30,000 donation from the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, Canada. During…
Guyana: Still no rotation of ambassadors
Over three years have passed since the government spoke about the need to rotate ambassadors, yet that has not happened. It was merely a pretext…
Gool Mohamed Khan father of the two British Guiana Begums
Deen Ameerullah is the great-grandson of Gool Mohamed Khan. The latter was born in 1853 in a small village of Moorni of the Nasruddin Khel…
Gripping tale of Indian worker abroad in Suriname
Large-scale emigration of unskilled labourers from British India took place in the 19th century. These labourers, who were hardly making both ends meet and living…
Two British Guiana Begums made history in the founding of Pakistan
Two British Guiana Begums made history in the founding of Pakistan It is indeed amazing that despite a conservative and conformist background as could have…
No “holy cows” in Suriname
No “holy cows” in Suriname In this article the connections and disparities between Surinamese Hindustanis and India are centralized. We demonstrate that while identities among…
Suriname Asian Marriage Decree
Suriname Asian Marriage Decree The Muslim Marriage Act of 1940 was part of the Asian Marriage Act of 1940 and was a result of strong…
Surinamese Muslims in a Plural Society
Abstract: The paper “Surinamese Muslims in a Plural Society” attests that in Suriname, Islam survived since its second arrival in 1873 and Muslims have excelled…