EXPLORATION, ENCOUNTER, EXCHANGE IN HISTORY
Calcutta was the primary port of departure for the British
ironically serve to bond many of the arrivals in their new land,
Indies to work on the sugar plantations. Those who were
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journey, as well as encounters with others who were
ships that would travel from the Bay of Bengal across the
Indian and Atlantic Oceans to the Caribbean, or via the Indian
Ocean to colonies such as Fiji. Indians migrated to the West
taken to places such as Guyana found that their new homes,
whether temporary or permanent, differed greatly from their
native lands, particularly when it cam