First published in 1986, East Indians in a West Indian Town explores the complex geographical, sociological and anthropological dimensions of Trinidad society b

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they ha

This title was first published in 2002. Throughout much of the developing world and especially in Africa and Latin America, the informal employment sector is gr

The elites saw the city's markets and streets as dirty, filled with dangerous non-white crowds. The poor saw these public places as sites of play and livelihood

Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom