Basdeo Mangru

Basdeo Mangru is a writer from Guyana. He was born at Pln Albion , Berbice, Guyana

He is a Ph.D graduate of the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and once taught at the University of Guyana. He is currently Associate Professor of History at City University of New York (CUNY)’s York College.

Basdeo Mangru is the author of "Benevolent Neutrality: Indian Government Policy and Labour Migration to British Guyana, 1854-1884" (London, 1987); "Indenture and Abolition: Sacrifice and Survival on the Guyanese Sugar Plantations" (Toronto, 1993); "A History of East Indian Resistance on the Guyana Sugar Estates, 1869-1948" (New York, 1996); "Indians in Guyana. A Concise History from their arrival to the Present". (Chicago, 1999) and "The Elusive El Dorado. Essays on the Indian Experience in Guyana" (The University Press of America, 2005), a collection of eight essays, published and unpublished, examining issues in the indenture and post-indenture period of British Guiana.He is the editor of C.F Andrews, "Impressions of British Guiana, 1930. An Emissary's Assessment" (Chicago, 2007).