I first read about the mixture of black and Indian islanders in V.S. Naipaul’s wonderful novel, “A House for Mr. Biswas.”
In that novel, as in his African novel “A Bend in the River,” Naipaul presents the Indians, a minority among the blacks, as the civilized ones. I’m sorry that he appears to have been wrong. I suppose when they were moved there by the British, some of them were Hindu and some where Muslim. Pakistan didn’t exist back then.
Naipaul himself is universally despisted by teachers of postcolonial literature, because his views are pretty conservative and sympathetic to western civilization. He’s one of the best novelists in the third world, but suffers from political prejudice.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that Paki existed, but that most of those who came to British Guyana were Muslim, hence my shorthand if not entirely accurate use of Paki. Sorry for the confusion.