Mohan Ragbeer
Dr Mohan Ragbeer is a historian, social anthropologist, a physician, university professor, journalist, photographer, linguist and carpenter, with a deep interest in his ancestral Indian culture and heritage, which he has explored and followed to the present. He has recently retired from the practice of Geriatrics in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born of Indian parentage in a multiracial British colony that became independent Guyana in 1966; he graduated in Medicine with London University...See more
Dr Mohan Ragbeer is a historian, social anthropologist, a physician, university professor, journalist, photographer, linguist and carpenter, with a deep interest in his ancestral Indian culture and heritage, which he has explored and followed to the present. He has recently retired from the practice of Geriatrics in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born of Indian parentage in a multiracial British colony that became independent Guyana in 1966; he graduated in Medicine with London University graduate and specialty degrees, and later became Dean of the Medical Faculty of the UWI, Jamaica, a position that enabled him to make wide international contacts and gain experience of world issues; this supplemented previous encounters with harsh political and communal conflicts in his native land prior to independence, similar to events in India which he has followed closely. He migrated to Canada on completion of his Deanship at a time of disruptive social and political unrest in Jamaica, with direct effects on his family, just as similar upheavals were forcing Indians and others to leave Guyana, where a Black dictator had been installed with CIA and Cold War support. This book forms part of a historical clarification of the colonial independence struggles and is aimed to inform multicultural societies of a history of Indians that they should know if they wished to live in mutual harmony. It is based on in-depth studies of Indian history enriched by an extended stay in India as a visiting Commonwealth scholar. He hopes his perspective would help to dispel the fog of misinformation and distorted history, initiated by the British nearly two centuries ago to facilitate conquest, and persisting in institutions and media globally, even in India, passing off as truth. Dr Ragbeer is disappointed in the direction India has taken and asserts that it is again falling to new enemies, a militant Wahabbist Islam from Saudi Arabia via Pakistan and evangelistic Christianity based in the USA, Europe and the Vatican, spurred by militaristic governments, religious organisations, exploitative Maoist communism, and by corrupt Indian and foreign businesses, politicos and administration. He dedicates this book in part to the valiant workers in India and elsewhere who stand up to the forces aiming to destroy or fragment India. He is twice married and has six children; he and his second wife, who edited this book, have been together for 34 years. See less