Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence

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( Bibliography ) Primary Sources This study is based almost entirely on manuscript sources located in the Public Record Office, London; the National Archives of the United States in College Park, Maryland; the Walter Rodney National Archives in Georgetown, Guyana; and the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre in Georgetown, Guyana. MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHIVAL MATERIAL Cheddi Jagan Research Centre, Georgetown, Guyana, uncataloged Ishmael, Odeen, ed. “The Suspension of the British Guiana Constitution—1953,” declassified British documents, 〈http://www.guyana.org/govt/declassified_ British_documents_1953.html〉. 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