Clarke and Clarke have created a journal that provides an ethnographic
record of the East Indians and Creoles of San Fernando - and the entire
sugar belt south of the town known as Naparima. They record
socio-political relations during the second year of Trinidad s
independence (1964), and provide first-hand evidence for the workings of
a complex, plural society in which race, religion, and politics had
become, and have remained, deeply intertwined. Entries occur whenever
there is evidence of social scientific importance to the project, and
these range from descriptions of weddings and pujas (prayer ceremonies
devoted to a Hindu deity) to interviews with religious leaders,
politicians and members of the south Trinidad elite.