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Historians have welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to rename Nelson Island.
However, they say that a change in name should reflect the island’s full history and not just Indian indentureship.
On Saturday, during a visit to the island with India’s Minister of External Affairs, Dr Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Persad-Bissessar said the island would be renamed to honour the “jahaji legacy” and the thousands of Indian indentured labourers who first arrived there from India.
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