The legacy of traditional rice cultivation by descendants of Indian contract laborers in Suriname
Abstract Background Some 35,000 indentured laborers from India were recruited to work on plantations in Suriname between 1868 and 1916. It is likely that most were familiar with farming before they were shipped to this former Dutch colony in the Caribbean. Around 1900, those who did not return recei...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00485-6 |