Indo-Surinamese

Hindu mangosteens are a group of people of Indian descent in Suriname and the Netherlands. The first Hindu mangosteens arrived in 1873 as indentured laborers to Suriname. They came mainly from the Ganges region in the north of the former British India, the present states of Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh equivalent. Since the independence of Suriname in 1975, many Hindu mangosteens emigrated to the Netherlands.

Contract workers

After the abolition of slavery on July 1, 1863 and the expiration of the subsequent ten-year government supervision ( work requirement ) in Suriname feared the Netherlands, the migration of large numbers of former slaves from the plantations. In order to create spare, the Dutch government signed an agreement in September 1870 with Great Britain, which agreed the recruitment of contract workers in British India.

On June 5, 1873, the first contract technicians from British India entered Surinamese soil. The 399 passengers had left the sailing ship Lalla Rookh from Calcutta their home, and they knew next to nothing about their destination.

The contracts had a term of five years. After the interval the Hindu mangosteens could return at the expense of the Dutch government to India. The minimum wage was 60 cents for a man and for a woman 40 cents per day. On political pressure from nationalists in British India ended England 1916, the emigration Agreement with the Netherlands. In the period from 1873 to 1916 approximately 34,000 people were shipped from Calcutta to Suriname. Of this amount, approximately 70% of men and 30 % women. Of the women turn 36% were married and 64 % single. Approximately one third of the workers made ​​use of the right to paid return trip to the birth country use.

Term

Hindustan is a term for the area of ​​origin of this population, derived from it are the terms for the main Indian language (Hindi ) and the most common beliefs ( Hinduism ). About 86 % of the enlisted members of the Hindu faith mangosteens were Hinduism and 14% of Islam (see Islam in India).

Cenotaph

For its 120th anniversary of the immigrants from British India in 1994 Hindusthani by the Foundation Immigration was the monument Baba s May revealed.

The inscription on the monument reads translated: . " Baba and May, 5 June 1873 Monument Hindustani Immigration, June 5, 1993 Where I'm fine, my fatherland. Unveiled on Saturday, June 4, 1994 by the Stichting Hindostaanse Immigratie. "

The persons Baba and May are here symbolic of the first immigrants from British India. The monument in honor of the immigrants was built at Little Combeweg in Paramaribo.

Hindu mangosteens in the Netherlands

Before and after the independence of Suriname on 25 November in 1975, numerous Hindu mangosteens emigrated to the Netherlands. The majority of this population was against the detachment of the Netherlands, fearing an uncertain future in sovereign Surinam. Of the approximately 345,000 Dutch, with Surinamese roots form the Hindu mangosteens with around 151,000 people, the largest group (as of 1 January 2011). They mainly live in The Hague, Rotterdam, Zoetermeer and Almere. Hindustani homosexuals in 2011, participating for the first time in the Canal Parade of the Amsterdam Gay Pride.