...Nalini Persram Small Axe Incorporated 2004 The Importance of Being Cultural: Nationalist Thought and Jagan’s Colonial World Nalini Persram [O]nly a vulgar reductionist can insist that [nationalism’s] new political possibilities simply “emerge” out of a social structure...

... facing these colonies, and the postwar economic crisis facing successive British governments forced 2. 741D. 00/4–3053. Memorandum, Campbell to Johnstone, 30 April 1953. R.G. 59, State Decimal File, Box 3542. 3. Th is is a play on Jagan’s self-exculpatory account of his tenure...

...Nalini Persram Small Axe Incorporated 2001 Guerrillas, Games and Governmentality Nalini Persram Britain has handled us and the question of our independence not in our interest, but in hers. —Cheddi Jagan, e West on Trial INTRODUCTION he period 1953 to 1963...

..., US Interven- tion in British Guiana: A Cold War Story (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). See too, the old j’accuse by Cheddi Jagan, the hero of Rabe’s narrative, The West on Trial: My Fight for Guyana’s Freedom (New York, International Publishers, 1967). 4...

... of anticommunist hysteria, leading to mass strikes and the destruction of much of the city by fire, actions supported by external forces of destabilization determined to forestall another Cuba in the hemisphere. Jagan’s claim that his party was simply fulfilling its manifesto and had been given a national mandate...

... had passed, and Carter’s and Guyana’s political fortunes had changed dramatically. In 1961 the PPP was not the party it had been in 1954. In 1955 the Burnham and Jagan factions split: Carter remained with the Jagans but he did not stay in the party long enough to stand in the next elections...

..., represented by Earl Bosquet; the Communist Party of Cuba, represented by Osvaldo Cardenas; and the People’s Progressive Party of Guyana, represented by Janet Jagan. Specially invited was Walter Rodney, who, if I remember correctly, did not deliver a message but was given a standing ovation. WPJ’s relationship...

... there were so many Indian doctors and Indian lawyers, and so on. I remember the real sense that they [the Black middle class] were being kind of knocked out of place. Now even though it was true that the PPP, led by Cheddi Jagan, was left-wing and communist, I think in that same period...

... Thought and Jagan’s Colonial World Nalini Persram 82 Creoleness and Nationalism in Guyanese Anticolonialism and Postcolonial Formation Percy C. Hintzen 106 Counting Women’s Caring Work...

... the older Indian men. So I just interviewed them. 23 RC: What are some of the histories you have been able to narrate through this practice? FB: Take the case of Cheddi Jagan, who was the longest-living politician we had in Guyana. How do I get material for a book about his party...

... P. C. Hintzen, “Cheddi Jagan (1918–97): Charisma and Guyana’s Response to Western Capitalism,” in Caribbean Charisma: Refl ections on Leadership, Legitimacy, and Populist Politics, ed. Anton Allahar (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001), 121–54. 7. See L. Braithwaite...

.... Photographer: J.A Siza, circa 1885–1896, Guyana Courtesy of the National Archives, Guyana—Georgetown, circa 1950s Hinterland, Guyana, courtesy of B. Rockliff e circa 1950s. Courtesy of the Fr. Darke Archives, Georgetown, Guyana—C. Jagan, Georgetown, circa 1966 (Background photograph) Virtual Exiles...

...-species-cum-regional-national extinction, conflating engineers’ understandings of nature with technology, the prophetic with the scientific. Even during economic liberalization in the late 1980s and into the early 1990s under Cheddi Jagan’s administration, engineers struggled to maintain waterworks...

... VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY GUYANA: A SYNOPSIS In 1992 Cheddi Jagan came to power as leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP/ Civic) in an election hailed internationally as being free and fair, ending twenty-four years of authoritarian rule and rigged elections under the People’s...

... Guyanese politics and culture. This “sage of Buxton,” as he is fondly called, is a Caribbean pathfinder across many domains and many decades. He was a founding member of the radical People’s Progressive Party (PPP), led by Cheddi Jagan. When the party won the first British Guiana elections under adult...

... since the sinister 1953 intervention in which the British colonial authorities sent troops to overthrow the radical and multiethnic regime of the Cheddi Jagan–led People’s Progressive Party, which had won the first adult suffrage elections. British Guiana raised in the starkest terms the fundamental...

..., and the First Duke of Edinburgh’s Royal Regiment. - - Yes Sir. - Th ere is the telephone, next to the logbook. Th e clock is ticking faultlessly. Tele- phone Jagan. Get him to send people out. A small boat could get out there, pour petrol on the water, return...

... own decision to never play the role of the “sex object” placed in front of the male band. This declaration stands in ironic contrast to the literary critic who, within an extremely “proper” academic event—a public lecture to commemorate the former president of Guyana Dr. Cheddi Jagan—can embrace...

... (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009); and Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014). 4 See, for example, Arnold Bertram, P. J. Patterson: A Mission to Perform (Kingston: AB...

... at the University of West Indies' Alma Jordan Library as well as at Trinidad's Sugar Heritage Village. Older relatives have also occupied an important site of memory in Indo-Caribbean politics, history, and literature. Cheddi Jagan's parents framed the opening to his political memoir The West on Trial , Gauitra...