Ramcharan-Crowley

Ramcharan married another indenture whom he apparently met after his arrival in Trinidad, a widow with two girl children, one named Bhutan who died a few years later at age 10...His wife supported his specializing in rare and much-desired Indian products. In her own right a clever trader, she was deeply religious, read the Ramayana in "an unknown tongue," wore a Nathuni in her nose, arranged for Indian musicians, dancers, and pandits for Hindu ceremonies, during which she played the drum with her notably short fingers. She remains a mysterious woman, a remarried Hindu widow whose "unkown tongue" was probably Bengali rather than the local Bhojpuri Hindi...Later in life, she separated from her husband (by now Miriam and Peter Ramcharan, having first converted to the United Church of Canada, then he apostasized back to Hinduism) and with their daughter, Edith Meighoo, set up a profitable mercantile business nex door to her husband's. She sent him food, and stayed on good terms with him and their two sons who worked for him...