More than a hundred years ago they signed an agreement to be sent around the world to farm sugar for the promise of a better life and a chance to return home after years of back breaking servitude.
Over sixty years more than one million Indians made this journey, to places they’d never heard of, and no clear idea of the great distances involved.
Most didn’t return. They knew how to farm sugar and this was a chance for independence and freedom. But as their communities grew and flourished, ethnic tensions developed.
Brought there by the colonialists who have long since moved on, there’s no clear agreement about their being there. Or anyone to hold to account.
Just the right to belong, born on the sugar-farm.