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Tassa Drum Let's take a trip, to a land far away in the east where mysticism, hues, romance, aromas and paradoxes run on steroids India, the mere mention of this land transcends one's mind, body and soul into mythical spheres. In the Caribbean, India and Indian-ness are an integral part of the region's social and cultural fabric, hints of which are potent and fragrant as the spices of the land are perhaps not visible on the surface but deeply embedded in the way of life. Turning the clocks back to a sunny afternoon of May 10, 1845 S.S. Blundell Hunter anchored in Old Harbour Bay aboard were 200 men, 28 women and 33 children making journey from India it is recorded that first Indian to set foot on Jamaican soil was a man named Parmeshwar (meaning Supreme Being or God). These were the first Indian immigrants to Jamaica. The Indian presence in Jamaica would grow with recruitment for another 70 years, as some 36,400 immigrants made the four-month long journey