Clem Seecharan

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Clem Seecharan, BA, MA, PhD ^[1] is a writer historian of the Indo-Caribbean experience, who was born in Guyana, and grew up in East Berbice-Corentyne. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Warwick, and taught the University of Guyana for some years. He was awarded a Professorship at the University of North London (now a part of London Metropolitan University) in 2002,^[1] and is now the head of Caribbean studies at London Metropolitan University, and a distinguished Caribbean historian. He currently teaches on the Caribbean Studies programme at London Metropolitan University.

Publications

His publications include (with Frank Birbalsingh) Indo-West Indian Cricket (Hansib, 1988), India and the Shaping of the Indo-Guyanese Imagination: 1890-1920 (Peepal Tree, 1993) and Indians in British Guiana 1919-1929 (MacMillan).^[2] In 2005 his biography of Jock Campbell, Sweetening Bitter Sugar. Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966 was published (Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica). His most recent book, Muscular Learning: Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies at the End of the 19th Century, was published in 2006 (Ian Randle Publishers).

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