Calcutta, July 13: Mr. M. S. A. Waiz, Secretary of the Imperial Indian Citizenship Association, Bombay, is in Calcutta for a few days making investigation into the condition of returned Indian immigrants from the Colonies such as Fiji, Surinam and British Guiana. He said: “There are about 2,000 returned immigrants scattered all over Calcutta. Most of them are colonial-born and have come out to visit the motherland. Nothing will induce them to leave Calcutta, for one thing they have had a bitter experience of being ostracised by their own people and secondly, they hope that, one day, the Government of India will send them out and, if they are not in Calcutta, they will be left behind. they are living a very precarious life. If the Government of India, for some reason, are unable to help those unfortunate people, the different colonial Governments should be approached for securing free passages, for there they are all British subjects and their rights must be protected by the Government of the colony in which they were born and have spent the major portion of their lives.” Published - July 14, 2026 02:20 am IST