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| image = Janey Tetary.jpg<br />
| caption = Statue of Tetary that was erected in 2017<br />
| birth_name = Tetary Begum Janey<br />
| birth_date = c. 1856<br />
| birth_place = [[Patna]], [[British Raj|British India]]<br />
| death_date = 26 September 1884<br />
| death_place = [[Commewijne District|Commewijne]], [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Suriname]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Janey Tetary''' (c. 1856–26 September 1884) born as '''Tetary Begum Janey'''<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 September 2016 |title=Tetary, een vergeten Hindoestaanse heldin |url=https://www.nickerie.net/News2015/2015-09-23%20-%20Tetary,%20een%20vergeten%20Hindoestaanse%20heldin.htm |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=Nickerie.net}}</ref> was a [[Indo-Surinamese]] [[Indentured servitude|indentured labourer]], rebellion leader and [[Freedom fighter|resistance fighter]] in the [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Dutch colony of Suriname]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-01-30 |title=Janey Tetary |url=https://counternarratives.nl/2019/01/30/janet-tetary/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Counter/Narratives |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Life ==<br />
Tetary was born in 1856 in Moniar, [[Patna]] (Former [[British Raj|British India]]) and was raised as a [[Muslims|Muslim]]. She was divorced at a young age and was known to defend women who had been badly treated by their husband.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hx14EAAAQBAJ&dq=janey+tetary&pg=PA490 |title=Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 19. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America (1800-1914) |date=2022-06-20 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-50038-9 |editor-last=Thomas |editor-first=David |volume=19 |page=490 |language=en |editor-last2=Chesworth |editor-first2=John A.}}</ref><br />
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On 11 September 1880, Tetary and her 10-year-old son Boodhoo signed contracts in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|India]] to labour overseas. They were indentured to Plantation Zorg en Joop near the [[Commewijne River]] in [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Suriname]], which was under Dutch control as a plantation colony.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roopnarine |first=Lomarsh |date=2016-11-15 |title=Who is Janey Tetary? |url=https://guyanatimesgy.com/who-is-janey-tetary/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Guyana Times |language=en-US}}</ref> <br />
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In 1884, Tetary lead the collective labour resistance of a group of "Hindustani" indentured servants against exploitation, after planters filed a petition to the colonial administration to change penal ordinances. They also protested about the low wages and difficult tasks they were given on the sugar plantation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Pande |first=Amba |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_bHDwAAQBAJ&dq=Janey+Tetary&pg=PA192 |title=Indentured and Post-Indentured Experiences of Women in the Indian Diaspora |date=2020-01-03 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-981-15-1177-6 |pages=192 |language=en}}</ref> When the military and police were called in to put down their rebellion, she mobilised women to fight armed with stones and bottles they had collected.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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She was murdered by policemen, allegedly on the advice of the colonial official Barnet Lyon,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-01 |title=Tetary is opgestaan |url=https://www.sarnamihuis.nl/tetary-is-opgestaan/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Sarnamihuis |language=nl-NL}}</ref> dying from a shot to the back of her head at close range on 26 September 1884.<ref name=":0" /> Six other indentured labourers were also killed.<br />
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== Legacy ==<br />
[[File:Statue Janey Tetary 3.jpg|thumb|252x252px|Plaque on the statue erected in 2017]]<br />
In 2013, the documentary film ''Tetary Over strijd, moed en opoffering'' (Tetary, about courage, battle and sacrifice) was broadcast on Dutch television.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fokken |first=Margriet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7JJqDwAAQBAJ&dq=janey+tetary&pg=PA12 |title=Beyond Being Koelies and Kantráki: Constructing Hindostani Identities in Suriname in the Era of Indenture, 1873-1921 |date=2018 |publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren |isbn=978-90-8704-721-4 |pages=12 |language=en}}</ref> <br />
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In 2016, Tetary's life story was featured in ''The Uprising'' music documentary which told the story of resistance against racism in the Netherlands, UK and France from a [[Decoloniality|decolonial]] perspective.<ref>{{Cite news |title=SG – Movie: 'The Uprising' |url=https://www.wur.nl/nl/activiteit/sg-movie-the-uprising-1.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722043607/https://www.wur.nl/nl/activiteit/sg-movie-the-uprising-1.htm |archive-date=2024-07-22 |access-date=2025-01-16 |work=WUR |language=nl-nl |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
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In September 2017, a statue of Tetary, designed by {{ill|George Ramjiawansingh|nl}}, was placed in [[Paramaribo]], [[Suriname]] near the President's Palace, replacing a statue of Barnet Lyon.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gounder |first1=Farzana |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABUHEAAAQBAJ&dq=janey+tetary&pg=PA88 |title=Women, Gender and the Legacy of Slavery and Indenture |last2=Hiralal |first2=Kalpana |last3=Pande |first3=Amba |last4=Hassankhan |first4=Maurits S. |date=2020-11-01 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-29510-8 |pages=88 |language=en}}</ref> The statue was paid for through the ''Tetary Must Rise'' [[crowdfunding]] campaign lead by the artist and activist [[Pravini Baboeram]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pravini Baboeram |url=https://filmforward.nl/en/expert/pravini-baboeram/ |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=FilmForward |language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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In August 2019, a street in the Netherlands was named in her honour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-04 |title=Amsterdam vernoemt straatnaam naar Tetary |url=https://www.sarnamihuis.nl/amsterdam-vernoemt-straatnaam-naar-tetary/ |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=Sarnamihuis |language=nl-NL}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1856 births]]<br />
[[Category:1884 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indentured servants]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian women]]<br />
[[Category:Indian emigrants to Suriname]]<br />
[[Category:Indo-Surinamese people]]<br />
[[Category:Surinamese rebels]]<br />
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