Referred to by British traders as ‘more akin to the monkey than the man’, between 1834 and 1917, over half a million people were taken from India to the Caribbean to replace the loss of slave labour. First arriving in Trinidad in 1845, my ancestors were among them. Although today, Indo-Caribbean people form the island’s largest ethnic group, in the UK this history is not well known. Too often told that I ‘doesn’t look Caribbean’, I created this project to revisit this period of colonial history, reclaim orientalist archives, and explore her questions of identity with other London-based Indo-Trinidadians.