The Hosay Masssacre of 1884

Upon the arrival of large numbers of Indians to the Caribbean, through the Indentureship system, they also brought their religion and other aspect of their culture. Their aversion to not assimilate to whiteness, was seen as a problem by the colonial governments. And no other event in the 1800’s would portray this than the 1884 Hosay Massacre in Trinidad which say agents of the colonial state - the police- turn their guns on Indians taking part in the annual Hosay festival.

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• The Bloodstained Tombs: The Muharram Massacre in Trinidad 1884 by Kelvin Singh

• Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation by Chandra Jayawardena

• Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean by Aliyah Khan

• Hosay Trinidad: Muharram Performances in an Indo-Caribbean Diaspora by Frank J. Korom

• Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870 - 1900, by Bridget Brereton

• Political and Social Disturbance In The West Indies by Frank Cundall

• Trinidad in Transition: The Years After Slavery by Donald Wood

ACADEMIC PAPERS

• Aspects of the Development of the Peasantry by Woodville Marshall

• History, Ecology, and Demography in the British Caribbean: An Analysis of East Indian Ethnicity by Allen S. Ehrlich

• Hosay and Its Creolization by Ajai Mansingh and Laxi Mansingh

• Indian Heritage in Trinidad, West Indies by J. C. Jha

• Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad, 1845-1917 by Rhoda Reddock

• Indo-Caribbean Migration: From Periphery to Core by Lomarsh Roopnarine

• Notes on Peasant Development in the West Indies Since 1838 by Woodville K. Marshall

• Reconciling the Local and the Global: The Ritual Space of Shi'i Islam in Trinidad by Frank Korom

• The East Indian Indenture in Trinidad by Judith A. Weiler

• The Transformation of Language to Rhythm: The Hosay Drums of Trinidad by Frank J. Korom

ARTICLES

• Caribbean Muslims: The Hosay or Muharram Massacre of 1884 in Trinidad

• TMV: What Happened During The 1884 Hosay Massacre In The Caribbean

DOCUMENTARIES

• Hosay Trinidad (1998) by John Bishop and Frank J. Korom

PODCAST

• Lest We Forget: The 1859 Toll Riots of Jamaica