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Trinidad & Tobago is in the north of Latin America and south of America. Modi is going here for the first time.
Prime Minister Modi is on a visit to five countries since July 2. After Ghana, he has left for Trinidad and Tobago today, where he will stay on July 3 and 4. The special thing is that this is the first visit of any Indian Prime Minister to Trinidad and Tobago after 1999.
Prime Minister Modi was invited by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Prasad Bisacer. During his visit, PM Modi will also meet Prime Minister Kamala in the capital Port of Spain as well as President Christine Carla Kangalu. Significantly, both the top leaders are of Indian origin.
The purpose of this historical journey is to further strengthen the historical, cultural and economic relations between India and Trinidad & Tobago. This visit of PM Modi is very special in another sense.
In fact, this year the 180th anniversary of Indian laborers arriving in Trinidad & Tobago is being celebrated for the first time. About 40% of the population of this country is of Indian origin, whose ancestors went in search of work there in the 19th century.
Modi’s schedule for Trinidad and Tobago tour
3 July
- Trinidad and Tobago will address the joint session of Parliament.
- Indians will attend a cultural program with diaspora.
- President Kangalu will organize a state dinner for PM Modi.
4 July
- PM Modi will meet many ministers and officials.
- There will be discussion on increasing cooperation in areas like defense, health, energy, UPI technology, agriculture and food processing, many important agreements will be signed.
- Late in the evening, Modi will leave for Argentina.
Columbus discovered Trinidad, named Christianity The distance from India to Trinidad is about 13,822 km. It is called Caribbean country. Caribbean country means those countries that are inhabited around the Caribbean Sea or on its islands. Caribbean countries are also collectively called ‘West Indies’.
Kristopher Columbus discovered Trinidad during his third sea journey in 1498. Columbus named this island named Trinidad, which means ‘Trimurti’. He named this on the ‘Trinity’, a symbol of Christianity.
Earlier, tribal communities lived on this island. After the arrival of Columbus, Spain established a colony on it in the 16th century. Britain took it into its possession in 1797 and in 1889 Tobago was also merged with Trinidad. Trinidad and Tobago gained independence from Britain in the year 1962.
India first established diplomatic relations India first established diplomatic relations after the independence of Trinidad and Tobago. The relations between the two countries started in 1845. This year, a ship named Fatel Razzaq reached Trinidad with 225 Indian laborers.
Most of these laborers were from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who went to work there. These laborers were taken to work on a contract of 5 to 7 years. The ‘agreement’ with these laborers came to be called ‘Girmit’ in colloquial language.
In this way, the workers working on the agreement became popular as ‘Girmitia’. The descendants of Indian indigenous laborers are still settled in Trinidad and Tobago, which is about 40% of the country’s total population. Right now there are more than 5 lakh people of Indian origin.
President of Trinidad-PM descendants of India’s indigenous laborers In the year 1834, Britain banned slaves in Africa. In such a situation, there was a shortage of laborers for sugarcane fields and other works in countries with European colonies. Workers from countries like India were brought to meet the shortage of these laborers.
The first batch of laborers from India was sent to Mauritius in 1834. According to historians, from 1834 to 1920, about 1.5 million Indian laborers were sent to countries like Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname (South America), Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica.
Both Trinidad & Tobago President Christine Kangalu and Prime Minister Kamala Bisacer are both descendants of these indermatory laborers. Kamala’s great -grandfather Ram Lakhan Mishra was from Buxar district of Bihar.
More than 30 war for capturing Tobago Tobago is very close to the South American coast. In the year 1498, Columbus saw Tobago, but did not capture it due to being quite small. But the situation changed after the year 1600.
Due to its location, many countries of Europe from 16th to 19th century started trying to capture the island, so that the Caribbean could monitor the commercial routes and nearby colonies from here. The Dutch first claimed capturing Tobago in 1628. Then apart from Britain, Spain, France, Dutch, many European countries also tried to occupy.
Tobago was captured 30 times between the 17th and 18th centuries. On average, the ruler of Tobago changed every 5–10 years. Through wars and treaties, the island continued to move between Britain, Dutch and France. So Tobago came to be called ‘Caribbean’s Football’.
After the Treaty of Paris in 1814, Tobago was officially considered under Britain. After this, the process of occupation ended here. However, so much occupation and battles had a great impact on the culture of Tobago. There is still the effect of a mixture of languages and traditions like French, Dutch, British, Spanish.
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