The Indian’s Consensus with the Creoles in Trinidad Yasuaki KITAHARA The Caribbean countries are multi-racial, composed mainly of European-descendants and the off-springs of African slaves (so called ‘Creoles’). Their culture is popularly called as Creole-culture, distinguished from European culture. Among the Caribbeans, Trinidad is unique in that the country is inhabited by the descendants of Indian indentured laborers in the sugar-cane plantations as many as Creoles. Since the independence in 1962 the country has harmoniously developed without any serious racial disputes. This is worthy of note in the present world where ethnic troubles are omni-present. How could the two major ethnic groups comfortably have lived each other in such a small island country ? Where could they find their consensus ? Are the Indians, as the late comers to the island, assimilated into Creoles or not ? With these questions in mind the present author has explored the historical background and vicissitude, the basic conditions underpinning the society, and the Indian’s consensus with the Creoles in Trinidad. Unlike African descendants who had been almost one-sidedly acculturated into the European Creoles, the Indians have exchanged the cultural influences with the Creoles, while maintaining the large portion of their own religions, cultures and traditions. In the meantime the Indians have committed themselves to the political and economic systems, educational instruments, and English language. In short, from the utilitarian points of view for the ascendance of their social and economic positions the Indians have found and given their consent to ‘the value in the structures’ which Trinidad has inherited from the British colonial control.