Ron Ramdin

Rama’s Voyage is the story of a boy who is forced by circumstances to leave his quiet village for a small town before he makes his journey to Calcutta. The novel is set in British India – at the time prior to and after the Indian Uprisingor ‘Mutiny’ – and on the high seas. Alone in the great city, Rama is befriended by two street children and he joins their group. He learns hard lessons, and in desperation embarks on a ‘coolie’ ship bounded for the sugar plantations of the Caribbean. The novel deals with themes rarely explored in fiction. It is a story assailed by tragedy, by man’s inhumanity to man, but it is also evocative of incredible courage and endurance, love and romance, revelation and self-discovery, as Rama moves closer to his destination.

Kumar Mahabir

is a full-time anthropologist at the University of Guyana (UG) and Fellow of The Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library (2022-23). He is a former Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida (UF). As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Grant, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship.
Mahabir received a National Award (Hummingbird Silver Medal) for his contribution to education in his country in 2011. He was among 50 recipients who received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the UWI Alumni Association.
Mahabir is the author of 12 books to date.

Rama’s Voyage [a novel]

Ron Ramdin

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