On 05/06/1873, 3-months after leaving Calcutta, Lalla Rookh arrived in Paramaribo, the first of many ships that transported East Indian indentured labourers to the Caribbean Basin https://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/suriname.html
One of the more eventful journeys seems to have been of Kate Kellock which arrived in Suriname in Jan'1874 with 469 indentured labourers. Records show a feud between Captain G.H. Bevan and surgeon superintendent Dr. Bipin Behari Dutt. Dutt claimed that Bevan had mistreated...
...the migrants, while Bevan stated that Dutt, regularly acted against his orders, openly questioned his authority and thereby stimulated disorder and disgruntlement among the migrants. Emigration Act (1871) required that only Europeans be medical staff on Surinam-bound ships.
Dutt's alleged involvement in the "mutiny"(which Dutt denied in a letter to Protector of Emigrants, Calcutta) led to him being made to leave the ship at Ascension Island, 1,300 kilometres from St.Helena
On 5th June, people of Indian origin pay tribute to the statue of Indian ancestors ‘Baba en Mai’ (Father and mother), located at the place where Indians first arrived in Suriname called the “Coolie Depot”
On 5th June, people of Indian origin pay tribute to the statue of Indian ancestors ‘Baba en Mai’ (Father and mother), located at the place where Indians first arrived in Suriname called the “Coolie Depot”
On 5th June, people of Indian origin pay tribute to the statue of Indian ancestors ‘Baba en Mai’ (Father and mother), located at the place where Indians first arrived in Suriname called the “Coolie Depot”
'Suriname: Indentured Workers from India (Hindustanis)' database with personal and family data of Hindustani immigrants who between 1873 and 1916 left as indentured servants from India (then part of British India) to Suriname. https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/hindostanen-in-suriname
Hindostanen in Suriname

https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoekhulpen/hindostanen-in-suriname
List of ships that have transported East Indian indentured laborers to the Caribbean Basin
https://immigrantships.net/newcompass/pass_lists/suriname.html
Each of these columns was carefully filled in with fine black ink, probably by a British colonial bureaucrat based in Calcutta. That anonymous bureaucrat also took care to delineate kin relations, bracketing family units together. https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/speculation-magic-realism-and-minding-the-gaps/
Speculation, Magic Realism, and Minding the Gaps

A speculative methodology can also be a deeply political response to the conventions of archival research, argues Sonja Boon in our Writing Radically series.

https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/speculation-magic-realism-and-minding-the-gaps/
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