Today, it is estimated that there are 325,000 Indians, making up 43.5 per cent of the population in Guyana. About 125,000 persons are mixed, many of them douglas. read more
Indo-Guyanese are Guyanese people with heritage from the Indian subcontinent. Linguistically they are speakers of the Indo-Aryan Hindustani languages such as Hindi and Urdu. They also speak other languages such as Tamil. Ethnically, originated from different parts of India, they have been known as the Indian or Hindi people. Indo-Guyanese are the largest ethnic group in Guyana identified by the official census, making up 39.8% of the population in 2012. read more
African slaves and Indian indentured labour were the largest of the ethnic groups that the British brought to Guyana to exploit for their plantation needs. Also exploited, but in fewer numbers were the first people, who the Europeans met here, the Chinese and the Portuguese. read more
Holi is a popular one. You can essentially think of most indians from Guyana as a Jamaican brain inside an indian body. We do listen to a lot of Hindi music. We eat curry and roti and channa and masala and dhal and other common traditional indian food, but the recipes are influenced by british and caribbean culture as well. read more