description: Seecharan explores the turbulent times in British Guiana from the 1930's to the 1960's by analyzing the period through the lives of two key actors, Jock Campbell and Cheddi Jagan. Campbell, a Fabian socialist and iconolclast from his plantocracy heritage urged reforms for the Indian workers in the colony's sugar industry. Cheddi Jagan, an Indian Guyanese Marxist politician, eventually constrained Campbell's reforms. The reforms, however futile, constitute one of the more redeeming episodes in the long, tortured history of the British-West Indian encounter. The study is based on archival sources, technical papers on malaria, hydrology, the largely unknown writing of Jock Campbell, rare Booker documents, the writings of Cheddi Jagan and numerous interviews.
language: English
title: Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell's British Guiana, 1934-1966
titlecomplete: Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell's British Guiana, 1934-1966
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Univ of West Indies Pr