🇹🇹 The sarees of Trinidad and Tobago
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Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians trace their roots to South Asian workers who reached Trinidad under British indenture between 1845 and 1917, most from the Bhojpur and Awadh belt of today's Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, some from Tamil Nadu and elsewhere. This article covers their music, food, cricket and festivals, but it says nothing about sarees, weaving, dyeing or dress.
- Ancestors came mainly from the Bhojpur and Awadh belt, in today's Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
- Indentured arrivals ran from 1845 to 1917, with about 147,592 reaching Trinidad.
- The community formed roughly 35.43 percent of the population counted in 2011.
- Tassa, dholak, tabla, harmonium, sitar and bansuri came over with the labourers.
- Hosay, Phagwah and many Hindu and Muslim days are widely kept.
Sarees in Trinidad and Tobago
The people now called Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians descend from workers who crossed from South Asia to Trinidad under British indenture, a movement that began in 1845 and closed in 1917, and from doctors, engineers, businesspeople and religious figures who arrived from the mid twentieth century onward. Their ancestry sits mostly in the Bhojpur and Awadh country of the Ganga and Yamuna plain, in what are today Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, with smaller numbers from Tamil Nadu, Bengal, Madras, Punjab and other regions. The article follows their drumming, cooking, cricket and religious calendar. It contains no account of clothing and no mention of a saree, a loom, thread, dye or woven cloth. On dress and textiles this source stays silent.
Weddings, festivals and daily wear
Tassa drumming, carried from the subcontinent and remade in Trinidad, sounds at weddings, at Hosay and at religious gatherings. The year holds many observances: Phagwah or Holi, Maha Shivratri, Ram Naumi, Navratri, Vijayadashami, Krishna Janmashtami, Ganesh Chaturthi, Kartik Snan, Guru Purnima and Raksha Bandhan, alongside Ramadan, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid, Shab-e-barat and Hosay. Indian Arrival Day and Eid ul-Fitr hold public holiday status, and Diwali does too. Chutney and chutney soca compete with calypso and soca through the Carnival season. The article does not describe what anyone wears to any of these.
The facts in this overview come from the Wikipedia article "Indo–Trinidadians and Tobagonians", written by its contributors and used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. EveryPallu rewrote the text in its own words, with AI assistance, and compares every page with the article to make sure no passage is copied. It may be reused under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence with a link back.
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