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Indo-Jamaican and Chinese-Jamaican Foodways

Community

Indentured migration after emancipation brought around 36,000 INDIANS to Jamaica between 1845 and 1917, chiefly Bhojpuri-speaking, settling in Clarendon, St Catherine, Westmoreland and St Mary โ€” and with them CURRY, which Jamaica took wholesale and made its own: curry goat is now a national dish and appears at every funeral, wedding and nine-night. Also roti, dhal, mango chutney, and the ganja complex. CHINESE migration from 1854, largely Hakka, produced the Chinese shop in every village, and dishes now entirely Jamaican โ€” the patty-and-chinese-food shop, sweet and sour, and the influence on Jamaican fried rice. โš  CURRY GOAT IS RECORDED AS JAMAICAN FOOD OF INDIAN ORIGIN, not as Indian food in Jamaica.

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Communities and languages

  • Indo-Jamaicans community documented
  • Chinese Jamaicans community documented

Languages: Caribbean Hindustani, Hakka, Hindi

What is recorded

  • Approximately 36,000 indentured Indians arrived in Jamaica between 1845 and 1917, chiefly Bhojpuri-speaking, settling in Clarendon, St Catherine, Westmoreland and St Mary. Chinese migration, largely Hakka, began in 1854. Curry goat is recorded as a Jamaican dish of Indian origin, now central to funerals, weddings and nine-nights across communities. documented
  • Indian indenture to Jamaica โ€” around 36,000 people โ€” followed by Chinese, largely Hakka, from 1854. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • originates from Indian documented

    Indenture 1845-1917. โš  Curry goat is recorded as Jamaican food of Indian origin.

  • related to Chinese documented

    Largely Hakka migration from 1854.

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