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Indo-Guyanese, the Glossary

Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent.^[1]

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Diasporas in India
Ethnic groups in Guyana
Indian diaspora in Guyana
Indian diaspora in the Caribbean

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer who works predominantly in Hindi cinema.

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All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, the Feast of All Saints, the Feast of All Hallows, the Solemnity of All Saints, and Hallowmas, is a Christian solemnity celebrated in honour of all the saints of the Church, whether they are known or unknown.

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Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus spinosus, commonly known as the spiny amaranth, spiny pigweed, prickly amaranth or thorny amaranth, is a plant that is native to the tropical Americas, but is present on most continents as an introduced species and sometimes a noxious weed.

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Anup Jalota

Anup Jalota, (born 29 July 1953) is an Indian singer, musician and actor, best known for his contributions to the Bhajan genre of Indian music.

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Artocarpus camansi

Artocarpus camansi, the breadnut, is a species of medium-sized tree in the family Moraceae.

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Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations.

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Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer, entrepreneur, actress and television personality who predominantly works in Indian cinema.

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Ashura

Ashura is a day of commemoration in Islam.

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Asparagus bean

The asparagus bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis) is a legume cultivated for its edible green pods containing immature seeds, like the green bean.

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Atlantic tarpon

The Atlantic tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) is a ray-finned fish that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers.

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Awadh

Awadh, known in British historical texts as Avadh or Oudh, is a historical region in northern India, now constituting the northeastern portion of Uttar Pradesh.

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Awadhi language

Awadhi, also known as Audhi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh in northern India and in Terai region of western Nepal.

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Azamgarh

Azamgarh is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Babla & Kanchan

Laxmichand "Babla" Virji Shah and Kumari Kanchan Dinkarrao Mali-Shah were an Indian husband-wife musical group best known for work in the chutney music and Desi Folk music genres.

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Baithak Gana

Baithak Gana (Caribbean Hindustani: बैठक गाना) is a form of music originating in Suriname by the Indian community.

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Ballia

Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

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Barfi

Barfi or burfi is a milk-based sweet from the Indian subcontinent with a fudge-like consistency.

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Basella alba

Basella alba is an edible perennial vine in the family Basellaceae.

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Basti, Uttar Pradesh

Basti is a city, municipal board and administrative headquarters of Basti district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Berbice Bridge

The Berbice Bridge is a pontoon bridge over the Berbice River near New Amsterdam in Guyana.

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Bhairava Ashtami

Bhairava Ashtami, also known as Bhairavashtami, Bhairava Jayanti, Kala-Bhairava Ashtami and Kala-Bhairava Jayanti is a Hindu holy day commemorating the manifestation of the deity Bhairava, a fearsome and wrathful manifestation of the god Shiva.

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Bhajan

Bhajan refers to any devotional song with a religious theme or spiritual ideas, specifically among Dharmic religions, in any language.

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Bhojpuri language

Bhojpuri (IPA:; Devanagari:, Kaithi) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bhojpur-Purvanchal region of India and the Terai region of Nepal and.

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Bhojpuri region

Bhojpur is a ethnolinguistic and cultural area in the Indian subcontinent where the Bhojpuri language is spoken as a mother tongue.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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British Guiana

British Guiana was a British colony, part of the mainland British West Indies.

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British Indians

British Indians are citizens of the United Kingdom (UK) whose ancestral roots are from India.

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British Indo-Caribbean people

British Indo-Caribbean people are British citizens, whose recent ancestors came from the Caribbean, and who further trace their ancestry back to India and the wider subcontinent.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Cabbage

Cabbage, comprising several cultivars of Brassica oleracea, is a leafy green, red (purple), or white (pale green) biennial plant grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads.

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Calabash

Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canned fish

Canned or tinned fish are food fish which have been processed, sealed in an airtight container such as a sealed tin can, and subjected to heat.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cassava

Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, manioc,--> or yuca (among numerous regional names), is a woody shrub of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, native to South America, from Brazil, Paraguay and parts of the Andes.

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Cauliflower

Cauliflower is one of several vegetables cultivated from the species Brassica oleracea in the genus Brassica, which is in the Brassicaceae (or mustard) family.

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Chaand Raat

Chaand Raat is a South Asian Cultural observance on the eve of the festival of Eid al-Fitr; it can also mean a night with a new moon for the new Islamic month Shawwal.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Chhapra

Chhapra (ISO: Chaparā) is a city and headquarters of the Saran District in the Indian state of Bihar.

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Chicken curry

Chicken curry or curry/curried chicken is a South Asian dish originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Chickpea

The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.

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Chow mein

Chow mein (and,; Pinyin: chǎomiàn) is a dish of Chinese stir-fried noodles with vegetables and sometimes meat or tofu.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.

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Chutney

A chutney (romanised: chatni चटनी romanised: chatnee چٹنی romanised: chatnee) is a spread typically associated with cuisines of the Indian subcontinent.

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Chutney music

Chutney music (Caribbean Hindustani: चटनी संगीत, 𑂒𑂗𑂢𑂲 𑂮𑂑𑂹𑂏𑂲𑂞) is a fusion genre of Indian folk music, specifically Bhojpuri folk music, with Caribbean calypso and soca music, and later with Bollywood music.

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Chutney soca

In Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname, chutney soca music is a crossover style of music incorporating soca and calypso elements and English, Hindustani, and Hinglish lyrics, chutney music, with Western instruments such as the guitar, piano, drum set, and Indian instruments such as the dholak, harmonium, tabla, and dhantal.

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Cichla ocellaris

Cichla ocellaris, sometimes known as the butterfly peacock bass ("peacock bass" is also used for some of its relatives), is a very large species of cichlid from South America, and a prized game fish.

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Cichlasoma bimaculatum

The black acara (Cichlasoma bimaculatum) is an omnivorous, freshwater, tropical fish.

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Colors TV

Colors (stylized as colors viacom 18) is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel owned by Viacom18.

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Cooking banana

Cooking bananas are a group of starchy banana cultivars in the genus Musa whose fruits are generally used in cooking.

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Crucifix sea catfish

The crucifix sea catfish (Sciades proops) — also known as the Christfish, the crucifix/crucifex catfish, the crucifixfish, or the gillbacker, — is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae.

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Curry

Curry is a dish with a sauce or gravy seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine.

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Custard

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin.

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Cynoscion

Cynoscion is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family, Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.

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Dal bhat

Dāl bhāt (दाल भात, दाल भात, ডাল ভাত, દાળ ભાત, डाळ भात, দাইল ভাত dāil bhat / দালি ভাত dāli bhāt, دال بھات) is a traditional meal from the Indian subcontinent.

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Dancehall

Dancehall is a genre of Jamaican popular music that originated in the late 1970s.

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Datta Jayanti

Datta Jayanti, also known as Dattatreya Jayanti, is a Hindu festival, commemorating the birth of the Hindu deity Dattatreya (Datta), a combined form of the Hindu male divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

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David A. Granger

David Arthur Granger (born 15 July 1945) is a Guyanese former politician and retired military officer who served as the ninth president of Guyana from 2015 to 2020.

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Demerara-Mahaica

Demerara-Mahaica (Region 4) is a region of Guyana, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of Mahaica-Berbice to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the region of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara to the west.

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Dhantal

The dhantal (dandtal) is a long steel rod based percussion instrument (sounding similar to the triangle), which was adapted from the iron "bows" which yoked the oxen that pulled the carts on the estates in Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, other parts of the Caribbean.

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Dholak

The dholak is a two-headed hand drum, a folk percussion instrument.

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Diwali

Diwali (Deepavali, IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions.

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Dosa (food)

A dosa is a thin, savoury crepe in South Indian cuisine made from a fermented batter of ground white gram and rice.

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Dried and salted cod

Dried and salted cod, sometimes referred to as salt cod or saltfish or salt dolly, is cod which has been preserved by drying after salting.

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Dropati

Dropati is a Surinamese musician.

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Drupatee Ramgoonai

Drupatee Ramgoonai (born 2 March 1958) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian chutney and chutney soca musician.

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Dutch language

Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.

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East Berbice-Corentyne

East Berbice-Corentyne (Region 6) is one of ten regions in Guyana covering the whole of the east of the country.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Eddoe

Eddoe or eddo (Colocasia antiquorum) is a species in genus Colocasia, a tropical vegetable, closely related to taro (dasheen, Colocasia esculenta), which is primarily used for its thickened stems (corms).

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Eggplant

Eggplant (US, CA, AU, NZ, PH), aubergine (UK, IE), brinjal (IN, SG, MY, ZA), or baigan (IN, GY) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

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Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha is the second of the two main holidays in Islam alongside Eid al-Fitr.

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Eid al-Fitr

Eid al-Fitr (lit) is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid al-Adha).

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Essequibo Islands-West Demerara

Essequibo Islands-West Demerara (Region 3) is a region of Guyana.

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Faizabad

Faizabad (Hindustani pronunciation: fɛːzaːbaːd) is a city located in Ayodhya district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Feast of Corpus Christi

The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a liturgical solemnity celebrating the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the feast is observed by the Latin Church, in addition to certain Western Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican churches.

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Filmi

Filmi music soundtracks are music produced for India's mainstream motion picture industry and written and performed for Indian cinema.

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Fried chicken

Fried chicken, also called Southern fried chicken, is a dish consisting of chicken pieces that have been coated with seasoned flour or batter and pan-fried, deep fried, pressure fried, or air fried.

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Fried rice

Fried rice is a dish of cooked rice that has been stir-fried in a wok or a frying pan and is usually mixed with other ingredients such as eggs, vegetables, seafood, or meat.

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Fudge

Fudge is a type of confection that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk.

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Ganesh Chaturthi

Ganesh Chaturthi (ISO), also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi or Vinayagar Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival that tributes Hindu deity Ganesha.

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Ganges

The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

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Ganthiya

Ganthiya (ગાંઠિયા/ગાંઠીયા) are deep-fried Indian snacks made from chickpea flour.

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Georgetown, Guyana

Georgetown is the capital and largest city of Guyana.

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Gita Mahotsav

Gita Mahotsav, Gita Jayanti, also known as Mokshada Ekadashi or Matsya Dvadashi is a Hindu observance that marks the day the Bhagavad Gita dialogue occurred between Arjuna and Krishna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra.

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Goat curry

Goat curry (Malay: kari kambing, Indonesian: kari kambing or gulai kambing), curried goat, or curry goat is a curry dish prepared with goat meat, originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Good Friday

Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary.

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Gorakhpur

Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region.

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Ground provisions

Ground provisions is the term used in West Indian nations to describe a number of traditional root vegetable staples such as yams, sweet potatoes, dasheen root (taro), eddos and cassava.

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Gujhia

Gujhia, also known as Gughara, Pedakiya, Purukiya, Karanji, Kajjikayalu, Somas, and Karjikayi, is a sweet, deep-fried pastry that is a popular dessert in the Indian subcontinent.

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Gulab jamun

Gulab jamun (also spelled gulaab jamun; or 'Rose berry') is a sweet confectionary or dessert, originating in the Indian subcontinent and a type of mithai popular in India, Pakistan, Nepal, the Maldives and Bangladesh, as well as Myanmar.

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Gulgula (doughnut)

Gulgula is a traditional sweet made in different regions of India.

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Guru Purnima

Guru Purnima is a religious festival dedicated to offering respect to all the spiritual and academic gurus.

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Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.

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Guyana National Park

Guyana National Park (normally simply the National Park) is an urban park in Georgetown, Guyana and was opened with Queen Elizabeth II in attendance and was formerly named Queen Elizabeth II National Park in honour of her state visit.

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Guyana–India relations

Relations between India and Guyana ever since the independence of Guyana in May 1966 have been cordial.

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Guyanese Creole

Guyanese Creole (Creolese by its speakers or simply Guyanese) is an English-based creole language spoken by the Guyanese people.

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Guyanese people

The people of Guyana, or Guyanese, come from a wide array of backgrounds and cultures including aboriginal natives, African and Indian origins, as well as a minority of Chinese and European descendant peoples.

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Guyanese pepperpot

Pepperpot is an Amerindian-derived dish popular in Guyana.

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Halva

Halva (also halvah, halwa, halua, and other spellings) is a type of confectionery originating from Persia (now Iran) and widely spread throughout the Middle East and South Asia.

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Hanuman Jayanti

Hanuman Jayanti is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of the Hindu deity, and one of the protagonists of the Ramayana and its many versions, Hanuman.

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Hari Om Sharan

Hari Om Sharan (26 September 1932 – 18 December 2007) was an Indian Hindu devotional singer and lyricist.

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Hindi Belt

The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on Dehlavi) serving as the lingua franca of the region.

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Hindi cinema

Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language.

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Hindu pilgrimage sites

In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a very long journey or search of great moral significance.

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Hinduism

Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.

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Hinduism in Guyana

Hinduism in Guyana is the religion of about 31% of the population in 2020.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Holi

Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.

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Hoplias aimara

Hoplias aimara, also known as anjumara, traíra, trahira, manjuma, anjoemara and wolf fish, is a species of freshwater fish found in the rivers of South America.

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Hoplias malabaricus

Hoplias malabaricus, also known as the wolf fish, tiger fish, guabine or trahira, is a predatory Central and South American freshwater ray-finned fish of the characiform family Erythrinidae.

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Hoplosternum littorale

Hoplosternum littorale is a species of catfish (order Siluriformes) belonging to the Callichthyinae subfamily of the family Callichthyidae.

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Hosay

Hosay (originally from Husayn) is a Muslim Indo-Caribbean commemoration that is popularly observed in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.

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Ice cream

Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Americans

Indian Americans are people with ancestry from India who are citizens of the United States.

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Indian Arrival Day

Indian Arrival Day is a holiday celebrated on various days in the nations of the Caribbean, Fiji, South Africa and Mauritius, commemorating the arrival of people from the Indian subcontinent to their respective nations as indentured labours brought by European colonial authorities and their agents.

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Indian classical music

Indian Classical Music is the classical music of the Indian Subcontinent.

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Indian diaspora

Overseas Indians (ISO), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are Indians who reside or originate outside of India. According to the Government of India, Non-Resident Indians are citizens of India who currently are not living in India, while the term People of Indian Origin refers to people of Indian birth or ancestry who are citizens of countries other than India (with some exceptions).

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Indian folk music

Indian folk music is diverse because of India's enormous cultural diversity.

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Indian indenture system

The Indian indenture system was a system of indentured servitude, by which more than 1.6million workers from British India were transported to labour in European colonies, as a substitute for slave labor, following the abolition of the trade in the early 19th century.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Indian South Africans

Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Indian television drama

Indian television dramas (also known as Indian series colloquially known as serials) are dramatic television programs written, produced, and filmed in India, with characters played by Indian actors and episodes broadcast on Indian television.

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Indo-Canadians

Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India.

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Indo-Caribbean Americans

Indo-Caribbean Americans or Indian-Caribbean Americans, are Americans who trace their ancestry ultimately to India, though whose recent ancestors lived in the Caribbean, where they migrated beginning in 1838 as indentured laborers. Indo-Guyanese and indo-Caribbean Americans are indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

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Indo-Caribbeans

Indo-Caribbeans or Indian-Caribbeans are people in the Caribbean who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Caribbeans are indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

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Indo-Fijians

Indo-Fijians (Fiji ke Hindustani), also known as Indian Fijians (also colloquially known as "Findians" or "Findus"), are Fijian citizens of South Asian descent, and include people who trace their ancestry to various regions of the Indian subcontinent.

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Indo-Jamaicans

Indo-Jamaicans are the descendants of people who came from India and the wider subcontinent to Jamaica. Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Jamaicans are indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

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Indo-Surinamese

Indo-Surinamese, Indian-Surinamese or Hindustani Surinamese are nationals of Suriname who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Surinamese are indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

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Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian

Indo-Trinidadians and Tobagonians or Indian-Trinidadians and Tobagonians are people of Indian origin who are nationals of Trinidad and Tobago, whose ancestors came from India and the wider subcontinent beginning in 1845 during the period of colonization. Indo-Guyanese and Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian are indian diaspora in the Caribbean.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islamic New Year

The Islamic New Year (رأس السنة الهجرية), also called the Hijri New Year, is the day that marks the beginning of a new lunar Hijri year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented.

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Jalebi

Jalebi, is a popular sweet snack in the Indian subcontinent, West Asia and some parts of Africa.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Juhi Chawla

Juhi Chawla Mehta (Chawla; born 13 November 1967) is an Indian actress.

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Kadhi

Kadhi or karhi is a yogurt-based dish originating from Rajasthan, india.

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Kanpur

Kanpur, formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is a large industrial city located in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Kartika Purnima

Kartika Purnima, also known as Kartika Pournami, is a Hindu, Sikh, and Jain cultural festival that is celebrated on purnima (full moon day), the 15th day of the lunar month Kartika.

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Khartal

Khartal is an ancient instrument mainly used in devotional / folk songs.

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Kheer

Kheer, also known as payasam or payesh, is a pudding/porridge popular in the Indian subcontinent, usually made by boiling milk, sugar or jaggery, and rice.

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Khichdi (dish)

Khichdi or khichri (translit, translit,, translit, Odia: ଖେଚୁଡି) is a dish in South Asian cuisine made of rice and lentils (dal) with numerous variations.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Krishna Janmashtami

Krishna Janmashtami, also known simply as Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.

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Kumar Sanu

Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi film songs.

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Laapsi

Laapsi or lapsi is an Indian sweet dish made using grain flour or broken wheat and ghee, along with milk, nuts, raisins and other dried fruits.

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Lablab

Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae.

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Laddu

Laddu or laddoo is a spherical sweet from the Indian subcontinent made of various ingredients and sugar syrup or jaggery.

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Languages of South Asia

South Asia is home to several hundred languages, spanning the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

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Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar (born Hema Mangeshkar; 28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer.

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Lo mein

Lo mein is a Chinese dish with noodles.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division.

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Luffa acutangula

Luffa acutangula is a cucurbitaceous vine that is commercially grown for its unripe fruits as a vegetable.

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Luffa aegyptiaca

Luffa aegyptiaca, the sponge gourd, Egyptian cucumber or Vietnamese luffa, is an annual species of vine cultivated for its fruit, native to South and Southeast Asia.

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Maha Shivaratri

Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the deity Shiva, between February and March.

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Mahaica-Berbice

Mahaica-Berbice (Region 5) is a region of Guyana, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the region of East Berbice-Corentyne to the east, the region of Upper Demerara-Berbice to the south and the region of Demerara-Mahaica to the west.

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Makar Sankranti

Makar(a) Sankranti, also referred to as Uttarayana, Makar, or simply Sankranti, is a Hindu observance and a festival.

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Mauritians of Indian origin

Indo-Mauritians are Mauritians who trace their ethnic ancestry to the Republic of India or other parts of the Indian subcontinent in South Asia.

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Mawlid

Mawlid (مولد) is an annual festival and holiday commemorating the birthday of Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabiʽ al-Awwal, the fourth month of the Islamic calendar.

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Mesha Sankranti

Mesha Sankranti (also called Mesha Sankramana or Hindu Solar New Year) refers to the first day of the solar cycle year, that is the solar New Year in the Hindu luni-solar calendar.

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Momordica charantia

Momordica charantia (commonly called bitter melon, cerassee, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear, karavila and many more names listed below) is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit.

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Moringa oleifera

Moringa oleifera is a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree of the family Moringaceae, native to the Indian subcontinent and used extensively in South and Southeast Asia.

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Mulligatawny

Mulligatawny is a soup which originated from South Indian cuisine.

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Navaratri

Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in honor of the goddess Durga, an aspect of Adi Parashakti, the supreme goddess.

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Nebris

Nebris is a small genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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New Year's Day

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January.

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Northern red snapper

The northern red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae.

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Okra

Okra, Abelmoschus esculentus, known in some English-speaking countries as lady's fingers, is a flowering plant in the mallow family native to East Africa.

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Pacu

Pacu is a common name used to refer to several species of omnivorous South American freshwater serrasalmid fish related to piranhas.

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Panjiri

Panjiri is a Ayurvedic sweet dish from the Indian subcontinent which is specially prepared for Krishna Janmashtami festival.

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Papaya

The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae, and also the name of its fruit.

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Paratha

Paratha (also parantha) is a flatbread native to the Indian subcontinent, with earliest reference mentioned in early medieval Sanskrit, India; prevalent throughout the modern-day nations of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago where wheat is the traditional staple.

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Patna

Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Peda

Peda or Pera is an Indian sweet that originated in the city of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Pholourie

Pholourie, also spelled phulourie or phoulourie, is a snack food commonly eaten in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname and other parts of the Caribbean.

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Pomeroon-Supenaam

Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region 2) is a region of Guyana.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Prayagraj

Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Preity Zinta

Preity G Zinta (pronounced; born 31 January 1975) is an Indian entrepreneur and actress primarily known for her work in Hindi films.

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Pump organ

The pump organ or reed organ is a type of organs using free-reeds that generates sound as air flows past the free-reeds, the vibrating pieces of thin metal in a frame.

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Pumpkin

A pumpkin is a cultivated winter squash in the genus Cucurbita.

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Puri (food)

Puri, also poori, is a type of deep-fried bread, made from unleavened whole-wheat flour, originated from the Indian subcontinent.

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Radhashtami

Radhashtami is a Hindu religious day commemorating the birth anniversary of the goddess Radha, the chief consort of the god Krishna.

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Rakesh Yankaran

Rakesh Yankaran, nicknamed The Raja (born 03 December 1959) is an Indo-Trinidadian musician.

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Raksha Bandhan

Raksha Bandhan Quote: m Hindi rakśābandhan held on the full moon of the month of Savan, when sisters tie a talisman (rakhi q.v.) on the arm of their brothers and receive small gifts of money from them.

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Rama Navami

Rama Navami is a Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Rama, one of the most popularly revered deities in Hinduism, also known as the seventh avatar of Vishnu.

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Ramadan

Ramadan (Ramaḍān; also spelled Ramazan, Ramzan, Ramadhan, or Ramathan) is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting (sawm), prayer (salah), reflection, and community.

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Ramdew Chaitoe

Ramdew Chaitoe (19 December 1942 - 6 June 1994) was a Surinamese musician and a harmonium player, who released a Baithak Gana album called The King Of Suriname a.k.a The Star Melodies of Ramdew Chaitoe in 1976.

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Rasam (dish)

Rasam is a spicy South Indian soup-like dish.

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Ratha Yatra

Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot.

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Ravi Bissambhar

Ravi Bissambhar, also known as Ravi B, (born October 27, 1982) is a Trinidadian chutney musician.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rikki Jai

Rikki Jai (born Samraj Jaimungal) is an Indo-Trinidadian chutney and chutney-soca musician.

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Roti

Roti (also known as chapati) is a round flatbread originating from the Indian subcontinent.

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Roti (wrap)

Originating in the Caribbean with Indian roots, a roti is a wrap style sandwich filled with either curried or sometimes stewed meats or vegetables wrapped inside a dhalpuri, paratha, or dosti roti. Indo-Guyanese and roti (wrap) are indian diaspora in Guyana.

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Rum cake

A rum cake or black cake is a type of dessert cake which contains rum.

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Saint Martin (island)

Saint Martin (Saint-Martin; Sint Maarten) is an island in the northeast Caribbean, approximately east of Puerto Rico.

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Sciades parkeri

Sciades parkeri, the gillbacker sea catfish, is a species of sea catfish found in coastal rivers in Brazil, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and Venezuela.

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Sev (food)

Sev is a popular Indian snack food consisting of small pieces of crunchy noodles made from chickpea flour paste, which are seasoned with turmeric, cayenne, and ajwain before being deep-fried in oil.

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Shab-e-Barat

Shab-e-Barat, Cheragh-e-Barat, Berat Kandili, or Nisfu Syaaban (Southeastern Asian Muslims) is a Mid-Sha'ban related cultural celebration celebrated in many South Asian, Central Asian, South East Asian and Middle Eastern Muslim countries, on the 15th night (the night on 15th only) of the month of Sha'ban, the eighth month of the Islamic calendar.

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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi cinema.

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Shana Yardan

Shana Yardan (10 April 1943 – 2 November 1989) was a Guyanese poet and broadcaster, whose work contributed to wider understanding of experiences of Guyanese women, the impact of British colonialism and the natural world. Indo-Guyanese and Shana Yardan are indo-Guyanese people.

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Shankarpali

Shankarpali, shakkarpara, murali, khurma, lakdi mithai, or just simply mithai is an Indian sweet snack made from a dough of sugar, ghee (or butter), maida flour, and semolina.

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Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer.

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Sitar

The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music.

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Snow cone

A snow cone (or snow kone, sno kone, sno-kone, sno cone, or sno-cone) is a variation of shaved ice or ground-up ice desserts commonly served in paper cones or foam cups.

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Soca music

Soca music is a genre of music defined by Lord Shorty, its inventor, as the "Soul of Calypso", which has influences of African and East Indian rhythms.

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Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian playback singer, music director, dubbing artist and actor.

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Sony Entertainment Television

Sony Entertainment Television (abbreviated as SET) is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel that was launched in 1995 and is owned by Culver Max Entertainment, a division of Sony Pictures.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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Spinach

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a leafy green flowering plant native to central and Western Asia.

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StarPlus

StarPlus is an Indian Hindi-language general entertainment pay television channel operated by Disney Star, a subsidiary of Disney India.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Suji ka halwa

Suji ka Halwa (सूजी का हलवा, سوجی کا حلوہ) is a type of halvah made by toasting semolina (called suji, sooji, or rawa) in a fat like ghee or oil, and adding a sweetener like sugar syrup, honey, or jaggery powder.

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Sundar Popo

Sundar Popo HBM, born Sundarlal Popo Bahora (4 November 1943 – 2 May 2000) was a Trinidadian and Tobagonian musician.

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Sunidhi Chauhan

Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced; born Nidhi Chauhan, 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer.

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Surinam (Dutch colony)

Surinam (Suriname), also unofficially known as Dutch Guiana, was a Dutch plantation colony in the Guianas, bordered by the equally Dutch colony of Berbice to the west, and the French colony of Cayenne to the east.

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Suriname

Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname (Republiek Suriname), is a country in northern South America, sometimes considered part of the Caribbean and the West Indies.

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Taal (instrument)

The taal or manjira (also spelled manjīrā or manjeera), jalra, karatala, kartal or gini is a pair of clash cymbals, originating in the Indian subcontinent, which make high-pitched percussion sounds.

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Tabla

A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.

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Tamil language

Tamil (தமிழ்) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia.

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Tassa

In Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, Jamaica, and other parts of the Caribbean, the term tassa refers to a drumming ensemble drawn from an amalgamation of various North Indian folk drumming traditions, most importantly dhol-tasha, a style that remains popular today in many parts of India and Pakistan.

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Tempering (spices)

Tempering is a cooking technique used in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka in which whole spices (and sometimes also other ingredients such as dried chillies, minced ginger root or sugar) are cooked briefly in oil or ghee to liberate essential oils from cells and thus enhance their flavours, before being poured, together with the oil, into a dish.

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Terry Gajraj

Terry Vivekanand Gajraj is a Guyanese chutney and chutney-soca artist.

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Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Tulasi Vivaha

Tulasi Vivaha (Gujarati: તુલસી વિવાહ, translit), also called Tulasi Kalyanam, is a Hindu festival, in which a symbolic ceremonial wedding takes place between a tulasi plant or holy basil (the personification of Lakshmi) and a shaligrama or an amla branch (the personifications of Vishnu).

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Udit Narayan

Udit Narayan Jha (born 1 December 1955) is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured mainly in Hindi films.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Upper Demerara-Berbice

Upper Demerara-Berbice (Region 10) is a region of Guyana, bordering the regions of Essequibo Islands-West Demerara, Demerara-Mahaica and Mahaica-Berbice to the north, the region of East Berbice-Corentyne to the east, and the regions of Potaro-Siparuni and Cuyuni-Mazaruni to the west.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Guyanese

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