Unesco’s Bridgetown heritage site in Barbados is another interesting place whose history renders an unified story of ancient migration in the Caribbean islands.
The property covers the ‘early town and port in Bridgetown and the overall Garrison, with all its historic components. These two elements are linked by a narrow strip along the Bay Street, which creates historic space for identifying both St Ann’s Garrison and Carlisle Bay through scanned pages of world history. According to Unesco, ‘the social stratification of Bridgetown illustrates the interchange of several occupational, religious, ethnic, free and enslaved groups; a meeting of cultures, which created a hybridized Creole culture in the Anglophone Caribbean’. This presents the picture of connectivity of the ancient migrants in the whole of the Atlantic World where transmission of ideas and cultures characterized the development and cultural unity of people in the Atlantic World.
Barbados stands for the ancient migrants from the land, port, and the kingdom of the ‘Barbers’(not ‘barbarians’ of Roman history). They were the people whose land and their kingdom existed on the banks of the river Ganges. The puranic name of the river Ganges identifies its inhabitants with Gargas and the Gargies; biblical Gaga identifies these people; and modern Gaza is a corrupt name of Gaga, same as Ganges. The Quran knows it as ‘gang’ like many other scholarly writings. Name George and Garrrison find their origin in ‘Garga’; in ancient times, there was a Bo-Tree on the bank of the river Ganges from which the name of ‘Bay Street’ has originated as mark of respect of the migrants for this Tree of Wisdom; while Bridgetown refers to Kesaba Bridge of the Avesta, Creol culture identifies the culture of the Chaldaens of the region. Ann’s Garrison similarly refers to Garrison of Aruna. This forms one ‘migration-unity’ of the people of one region. It was also the region of the Gerrites from which the name Garrison may finds its origin.
Kalinagos, Careenage, Carlisle, and Tainos collectively defines their ancient geographical identity along with Kaspian Sea where the Kesaba Bridge then existed. Tainos people were as same as the original inhabitants of Tanais of the Bible; it was Tyna of Alexander’s India invasion history.
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