ABSTRACT
The story of the arrival of the migrants in Suriname and the conditions in which they lived there can be understood from the narrative of Baba Ambika Sarju, a hundred-year-old Bhojpuri migrant who was transported to Suriname in 1912. He belonged to Raebareli, and his father's name was Sarju. Ambika Sarju went on to say that in spite of having a good house, good family and all comforts, he was deeply unhappy at having to leave his own country, his parents, his wife and other relatives. Suriname, followed the behaviour of creoles, creoles are nothing. Suriname being one of the Caribbean countries to which the Bhojpuri labourers migrated, the Hindustani community of Suriname shares a similar culture with the Indo-Caribbeans in countries like Guyana and Trinidad or with Fiji, Mauritius, and the other countries where the Bhojpuri indentured labourers migrated.
