This series of interviews was conducted by Rosabelle Seesaran, doctoral student in the Department of History, as part of her research on East Indians in Trinidad (Seesaran, Rosabelle, "Social Mobility in the Indo- Trinidadian ...

Jim Barrette and Christina King were activists in the labour and trade union movements of the 1930s. See also OP 29.

Lionel Seukeran was bom in 1908 and entered politics in 1946 after a brief teaching career. He later studied law. He entered the Legislature, having won a seat as an Independent candidate, in 1956 and subsequently sewed ...