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As Gandhi had hoped, the salt campaign was a turning point in swaying international opinion in favor of the Indian cause.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
The elders blamed the younger generation for abandoning traditional ways; the younger men blamed those who failed to adapt with the times.
Minal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
Furthermore, Luau produces a gendered regulation of Native bodies.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
constructively actionable.
Anand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
In Uganda, as elsewhere, Indians—including Gujaratis—had formed a shopkeeper class. They became a prime target of the extreme and violent form of nationalism that the dictator espoused, their plight the most vivid and traumatic example of "pariah capitalism" that our diaspora had encountered. After the 1972 expulsion, thousands of refugee
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In Motiram's time, the region that encompassed Navsari was divided so that it looked, on the map, like a pastiche of jerry-rigged dots and shapes. Most areas were under the direct rule of the British. The rest belonged to a local ruling family entirely beholden to the British, and as rapacious. Their territory was disconnected; Motiram's hometown o
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We adapted in ways that made sense to my parents, letting go of cultural traditions that were no longer practical while holding on to the customs and practices that were important to them.