An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians

About This Edition:This Kindle edition is very well formatted with few illustrations and active footnotes and active toc.About Book:Indo-Guyanese are people with roots in South Asia (primarily India) who are citizens or nationals of Guyana. They are often referred to as Indians or East Indians. Indo-Guyanese make up a majority of the population of Guyana and are the largest ethnic group in the country.The Indo-Guyanese are the descendants of the Indentured labourers who were brought from British India, to what was then called British Guiana to work in sugar cane plantations after the abolition of slavery in 1833. Most Indo-Guyanese are Hindu; substantial minorities are Muslim and Christian. Indo Guyanese have made significant contribution to the economical and cultural growth and diversity to the Guyanese culture and festivals such as Holi,Deepavali and Eid are national holidays along with Indian Immigration Day which is celebrated on the 5th of May each year.About Author:Walter Edmund Roth (2 April 1861 - 5 April 1933) was an English anthropologist and physician, active in Australia.Roth was born in London, sixth child of Dr. Mathias Roth (a physician and naturalised Hungarian refugee) and his wife Anna Maria nee Collins. He was educated initially at the College Mariette, at Boulogne, and at Paris, France and later in Germany. Like his brothers Henry Ling Roth and Reuter Emerich Roth, at University College School. He studied biology at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary of Sir Baldwin Spencer, and undertook medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, London. Read more