ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at rates of attempted suicide and possible causative and social characteristics among the Indian diaspora. Trinidad and Tobago are two islands in the Caribbean with an area of 1980 square miles containing two conflict-oriented ethnic subcultural groups —African–Trinidadians and Indo-Trinidadians. The rapid growth of the mining and sugarcane industries meant that the population rose accordingly. In Trinidad, Indo-Trinidadians are largely based in the agricultural midlands. Naidu observes that the Indian indentured labour system was introduced in Fiji by Sir Arthur Hamilton in 1879 in line with his native policy and his bid to establish Fiji as a viable economy. The migration to the UK from the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean started in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s when a significant number of Asians were expelled from East Africa and came to settle in the UK.
