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seignet posted:
Gilbakka posted:

Narendra Modi was supposed to unveil that monument but something happened to cancel the visit. May 5 coming up. Let's wait and see who will have the honour.

Being a Guyanese historian, "do you think those headwear was around in 1838?"

The Nehru cap in particular.

Old photographs shows all the men wearing turbans (phagri).

Historical misrepresentation in Indian Arrival Monument

https://www.stabroeknews.com/2...an-arrival-monument/

March 11 2019

Dear Editor,

I believe that the picture shown in the Indian Arrival Monument at Palmyra in Berbice does not give a true reflection of the actual event in several aspects including the head-wear of the male immigrant.

The male immigrant is shown wearing a head-dress reminiscent of what India’s first Prime Minister, the late Jawaharlal Nehru, initiated and popularized as the “Nehru cap”; I do not think that cap existed  when the Indian immigrants came to British Guiana from India.

As far as I know the male immigrants wore a piece of cloth which they tied around their heads.

Yours faithfully,

Nowrang Persaud  


 

Siege you are the man, Nowrang also mentioned about  the "Nehru Cap"

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