Abstract
The Ganesh festival, or utsav, is relatively new to Trinidad’s landscape as a public performance of Hinduism. Although it has been a very important celebration for over a century within select diasporic Hindu communities in Trinidad, particularly in the southern part of the island where it is said to have begun, the practice has become more widespread since the early 1990s. Many of the villages make their own mūrtis (idols or images). Focusing on the festival’s interpretation within the Caribbean context, this article highlights preliminary findings gathered from fieldwork on the ritual art of mūrti-making and the function of the image within the Hindu festival in Trinidad.
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