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Picking through the files of history

“MY GRANDMA died alone though she had a family in South Africa. It will be a great joy for us to find our relatives,” wrote Stella Prabhudas Pillai in an email from India a week ago.

At this moment, 160 years ago, the Truro and the Belvedere were on the high seas en route to Durban with their indentured “living cargo” from Madras and Calcutta, respectively.

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