<P> On May 5 , 1838 , the year of finalized abolition slave emancipation in the British West Indies and the beginning of the indentured labor system , 396 Indian immigrants popularly known as the ' Gladstone Coolies ' landed in British Guiana ( now Guyana ) from Calcutta ( now Kolkata ) . This was the beginning of the indenture system which was to continue for over three - quarters of a century and whose essential features were very reminiscent of slavery . Within a decade Indian immigration was largely responsible for changing the fortunes of the sugar industry , the mainstay of the economy , from the predicted ' ruin ' to prosperity . </P>
<P> On May 5 , 1838 , the year of finalized abolition slave emancipation in the British West Indies and the beginning of the indentured labor system , 396 Indian immigrants popularly known as the ' Gladstone Coolies ' landed in British Guiana ( now Guyana ) from Calcutta ( now Kolkata ) . This was the beginning of the indenture system which was to continue for over three - quarters of a century and whose essential features were very reminiscent of slavery . Within a decade Indian immigration was largely responsible for changing the fortunes of the sugar industry , the mainstay of the economy , from the predicted ' ruin ' to prosperity . </P>
when did the east indian came to guyana
when did the east indian came to guyana
May 5 , 1838 , the year of finalized abolition slave emancipation in the British West Indies and the beginning of the indentured labor system
May 5 , 1838 , the year of finalized abolition slave emancipation in the British West Indies and the beginning of the indentured labor system