STABROEKNEWS: Clem Seecharran is a son of Guyana and a true scholar. He came from a house in Berbice with no books. Yet Professor Seecharran has become, or is on the way to becoming, one of the most prolific and serious authors ever produced by Guyana.

A distinguished historiographer, Clem has just sent his latest book to the publishers. It promises to be yet another triumph for Professor Seecharran following in the footsteps of his masterly work on Sir Jock Campbell ‘Sweetening Bitter Sugar’ which won the ‘Caribbean History Oscar’-the Elsa Gouveia Prize- in 2005. The serious oeuvre of the boy from Berbice just gets bigger and bigger.

The latest tome is called ‘Mother India’s Shadow over El Dorado: Indo-Guyanese Politics and Identity, 1890s-1930′