Word: indian
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...title of Amit Chaudhuri's latest novel, A New World, is somewhat misleading. The book seems to explore the difficulty in translating a traditional Indian upbringing to a modern Western life. However, A New World does not substantively explore Indian emigrant Jayojit Chatterjee's struggle to conquer life in his new world, the world of an American academic in the Midwest. Instead, the novel is a celebration of the old world Jayojit has left behind. A New World traces Jayojit's longings for the old world of his parents' home in Calcutta, longings that seem to surprise even Jayojit himself...
...addition, Fox has been conciliatory towards the indigenous Indian rebels' social demands. He has revived several laws to protect Indian rights that were scrapped under the previous Zedillo administration. Fox has also sent a package of reforms to congress, labeled the San Andres Accords. These proposals to give limited home-rule to Mexico's indigenous Indian communities were scuttled by the Zedillo government...
...Zero Factor legend began back in 1813, when William Henry Harrison was governor of the Indiana Territory. His prime task as governor was to obtain title to Indian lands, enabling settlers to press forward into the wilderness. The Indians didn't seem to agree with his task, and at the Battle of the Thames during the War of 1812, Harrison and his troops killed the great Indian leader Tecumseh. Reportedly, Tecumseh's brother, The Prophet, was so distraught over the slaying of his beloved brother that he laid a curse on William Henry Harrison, "and all who follow him." Twenty...
...church's paternal attitude toward Mexican Americans and vowed to go beyond simply elevating cultural traditions in church services. He wanted to develop a theology within the context of the living faith of his childhood neighbors, a faith that spoke of the mestizo experience--the mixture of Spanish and Indian blood common to people born of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Why, he pondered, was there such emphasis in the Gospels on Jesus' origins in Galilee, a land little mentioned in the Old Testament? It came to him that Jesus was essentially a mestizo, raised in Nazareth, outside the mainstream...
Europe's Muslims are the product of immigration in the postwar years, when workers were recruited from Turkey, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent to meet the war-shattered Continent's manpower needs. While the first generation jealously guarded their cultural links with their homeland, their children and grandchildren have often felt torn between two cultures. "What I'm saying is, be proud of who you are," says Ramadan. "We've got to get away from the idea that scholars in the Islamic world can do our thinking for us. We need to start thinking for ourselves...