Individuals,organizations,and institutions adopt prominent people as political symbols or a variety of reasons.They then produce conflicting memories and images of their chosen symbols.
The widespread study of Indian immigrantn in the different colonies since Indentureship in the nineteenth century can be broken down into
several easily identifiable paradigms.
In the Run‐up to the 1999 elections, both academia and the media assumed that there would be a ‘coloured’ and ‘Indian’ vote. This article challenges this assumption through a disaggregation of the election results.
