He expanded his views in a last book, Out of the Red (Government Printer, Trinidad. Free on application). It was left to Indarsingh to note the ‘capitalist mentality inherent in the title’; and he wrote an article for a weekly paper blaming the violence at Lorimer’s Park on Ganesh, since he had cruelly raised the workers’ hopes without having anything to offer them.
Ganesh never walked out again. He went to cocktail parties at Government House and drank lemonade. He wore a dinner-jacket to official dinners.
In the Colonial Office report on Trinidad for 1949 Ganesh was described as an important political leader.
In 1950 he was sent by the British Government to Lake Success and his defence of British colonial rule is memorable. The Government of Trinidad, realizing that after that Ganesh stood little chance of being elected at the 1950 General Elections, nominated him to the Legislative Council and arranged for him to be a member of the Executive Council.
Indarsingh was elected in Ganesh’s old ward, on a platform of modified Socialinduism.
In 1953 Trinidad learned that Ganesh Ramsumair had been made an M.B.E.
Epilogue. A Statesman on the 12.57
IN THE SUMMER of 1954 I was at an English university, waiting for the results of an examination. One morning I got a letter from the Colonial Office. A party of Colonial Statesmen were in Britain for a conference, and would I be willing to entertain a statesman from my own territorry? It was the vacation and I had much time on my hands. I agreed. It was arranged that I should be host for a day to G. R. Muir, Esq., M.B.E.
The day of the visit came and I was at the railway station to meet the 12.57 from London. As the passengers got off I looked among them for someone with a nigrescent face. It was easy to spot him, impeccably dressed, coming out of a first-class carriage. I gave a shout of joy.
‘Pundit Ganesh!’ I cried, running towards him. ‘Pundit Ganesh Ramsumair!’
‘G. Ramsay Muir,’ he said coldly.