In 1950, Dr Cheddi Jagan began a campaign to transform British Guiana, South America, into a Marxist state, allied with the USSR in the growing Cold War. His failure and the flight of some 500,000 people to North America and Britain are almost forgotten tragedies even among that Diaspora. The Indelible Red Stain, a two-volume blockbuster by Guyanese doctor and political insider, Dr Mohan Ragbeer, tells the story in a masterly way and provides the key to understanding the ruin of Guiana, its bloody race war, and the massive exodus. Ram Jagessar, a Toronto historian, writes, "Dr Mohan Ragbeer...
In 1950, Dr Cheddi Jagan began a campaign to transform British Guiana, South America, into a Marxist state, allied with the USSR in the growing Cold W...
Book2, The Indelible Red Stain, Second edition, with an Addendum, summarising changes up to 2015. Delays, dangers, food shortage and fears of political violence in the country's capital and of the collapse of the country itself dog the team, which finds ways to solve problems and to study factors that promoted cooperation. Multiracial societies - increasing globally - must learn the ways of each culture, not only to live and work in harmony, but to shed biases become enriched and nobler by respecting and even adopting another's core values. The history of India, shortened in this edition, and...
Book2, The Indelible Red Stain, Second edition, with an Addendum, summarising changes up to 2015. Delays, dangers, food shortage and fears of politica...