My research examines how Indo-Guyanese communities have reconstructed religious, cultural, and historical belonging across displacement. I trace these histories from Indian indenture in British Guiana to postcolonial Guyana and Indo-Guyanese immigrant life in New York City.
At the center of my work are questions of migration, religion, memory, and community formation. I study mandirs, devotional music, oral histories, family memory, community archives, and public rituals as historical sources.
Rather than treating migration only as rupture, my research examines how Indo-Guyanese communities have created continuity, authority, and meaning across changing colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic worlds.
Migration
Indenture, postcolonial migration, diaspora formation, and Indo-Guyanese settlement in New York City.
Religion
Mandirs, devotional music, ritual life, conversion, caste, and religious adaptation across displacement.
Archives
Oral histories, family photographs, community records, newsletters, and public humanities collections.