Indian Arrival Day 2026: Celebrating the journey of the girmitiyas

This year marks the 181st anniversary of the first arrivals of Indian indentured labourers to Trinidad, and the 106th anniversary of the end of the Indian Indentureship System. The indentureship system saw the mass movement of contracted labourers (or girmitiyas) from India to European colonies, including Trinidad (a former British colony), to work on sugar and other plantations, following the…