Clem Seecharan

A distinguished Caribbean historian, Seecharan is the author of publications that include Indo-West Indian Cricket (with Frank Birbalsingh; Hansib, 1988), India and the Shaping of the Indo-Guyanese Imagination: 1890-1920 (Peepal Tree Press, 1993) and Indians in British Guiana 1919-1929 (Macmillan Publishers).^[1] In 2005 his biography of Jock Campbell, Sweetening Bitter Sugar: Jock Campbell, the Booker Reformer in British Guiana 1934-1966 was published (Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica) and won the Elsa Gouveia Prize from the Association of Caribbean Historians, their citation describing it as "an extraordinarily impressive book of signal importance in Caribbean history and historiography."^[2] Muscular Learning: Cricket and Education in the Making of the British West Indies at the End of the 19th Century, was published in 2006 (Ian Randle Publishers).

In 2018, Seecharan launched the second volume of the history of cricket in Guyana, covering the years 1898–1914.^[7][8] He wrote a biography of the Guyanese Test cricketer Joe Solomon in 2022, Joe Solomon and the Spirit of Port Mourant.^[9]

Seecharan received an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies (UWI) in 2017.^[10] He delivered the 2014 Republic of Guyana Distinguished Lecture.^[1] In 2023 he was awarded the annual Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship.^[11]