The Indentured Servants: From Bengal to Bush Lot to Belize

"Karan Chand...has woven the life experience of three generations of his family, beginning with his grandfather, into a humorous yet serious story of the hardships of poverty and indentured servitude-an odyssey over four regions: India, Africa, South America and Central America." Adele Ramos-.Editor, Amandala BELIZE. .................................................................. " ROOTS GONE EAST INDIAN...is on many levels the East Indian counterpart of Alex Haley's blockbuster novel ROOTS" Andrew Steinhauer, Editor, BELIZE TIMES ................................................................. With 90 photos this is not a textbook but a novel for enjoyment, education and reliving memories of bygone days.

Karan Chand (aka Chines/ Ghasi) grew up in Anna Regina, Essequibo Coast, Guyana. By vocation, he has been an educator all of his adult life. Between 1980 and 1989 he taught at Abram Zuil Secondary School, Alleyne High School, Anna Regina Community High School and Anna Regina Multilateral School. He has also taught in Belize (formerly British Honduras) in Central America at various secondary and tertiary level educational institutions including the Belize Teachers’ Training College and the University of Belize, culminating his career there as a principal at St. Michael’s College. In between, he taught in the Turks and Caicos and in the USA. By avocation, he is a writer and poet and has also written a book of 13 short stories titled ＂JIM JONES’ JUSTICE and other short stories＂ and poems in a book: ＂ I HAD A DREAM an anthology of poems＂. In 2009 Chand migrated to Canada where he has been teaching adult students from all over the world at the Adult Education Centers of the Peel and York District School Boards, Ontario. Karan is married to Sita and they have two children - Elizabeth and Romain. He can be contacted at kchand16@hotmail.com