Janey Tetary is killed during the repression at Zorg en Hoop

On 25 August 1873, the Yorkshire brought another group of contract workers from British India. The National Archives ship list associates this arrival with hundreds of contract numbers. Read together,...

The Mangalore arrived in Suriname on 8 November 1873 with a further group of Hindostani workers. Their registration numbers became an enduring administrative identity, and records continued to be...

The ship Calcutta arrived on 25 November 1873, completing five recorded ship arrivals from British India in the first year of the main migration system. The contract numbers run sequentially across...

The Howrah arrived on 8 April 1874, extending the recruitment stream begun the previous year. Colonial authorities recorded workers in immigration registers and assigned them to employers. Contract...

On 24 September 1884, Hindostani laborers at the sugar plantation Zorg en Hoop protested severe tasks and low payments. A confrontation followed after an overseer judged the assigned work incomplete...

On 9 August 1890, the first recorded Javanese contract workers arrived in Paramaribo aboard the Prins Alexander and Prins Willem II. The experiment placed them at Mariënburg, where they joined an...

The steamship Voorwaarts arrived on 16 June 1894 with the second major recorded Javanese cohort in the National Archives ship chronology. Recruitment from Java was still experimental, but it became...

On 28 June 1902, 137 workers at plantation Alliance—100 Hindostani and 37 Javanese—stopped work and went to Frederiksdorp to present grievances. They objected to excessive tasks, low wages, and the...

On 29 June 1902, officials arrested Jumpa Raygaroo after workers had returned to Alliance from their protest. Fellow workers demanded his release, and a confrontation escalated around the official...

On 2 July 1902, workers at Mariënburg were in open conflict with management over low pay and demanding work. Earlier disputes included reduced payment per work task and an unresolved demand for higher...