On the 12th of July Swami Gangeshwaranandji Maharaj traveled to West Indies and arrived in Montego in the island country of Jamaica to bless His disciples who had been waiting for Gurudev to visit  them. They have been living in Montego  since many years and it was now their Home.

West Indies—An introduction.

It will be very encouraging and a matter of great pride for every Bharatiya to know that many years ago explorers and voyagers were on the look out for a sea route to India as they had heard its glories.

While touring the world if they saw any place that was not like their own they would exclaim and say that it is INDIA.

Ptolemy has described some of the islands on the  Pacific Ocean  प्रशान्त महासागर  as Indonasis meaning the islands of India and now these islands are known as Indonesia.

Elsewhere these islands were known as Indo-China.

In the same way he called the islands in the Atlantic Ocean  अंध महासागर

as West Indies. Actually it will not be incorrect if we call these islands the ‘second India of the West!’ The reason for this is that the people of West Indies are called West Indians so that they can be differentiated from the Indians of India.

The story of the natives of the United States is also interesting as they are called Red Indians!

Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Granada, Barbados, Surinam and Guiana are called West Indies.

The natives  or the indigenous people of these islands  are ‘Caribs’ and that is why the islands are also called CARIBBEAN.

 However, the name West Indies is more popular.

How did these islands get a large Indian Population?

This story is also very interesting!

After establishing their reign in India, the Britishers also ruled over many of the countries and  the islands on the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans.