Dictionary of Indian Biography
Author: C. E. Buckland
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 506
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Author: C. E. Buckland
Publisher: Ardent Media
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ashwin Desai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-09-12
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 0199098786
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough the long 20th century, Indian South Africans lived under the whip of settler colonialism and white minority rule, which saw the passing of a slew of legislation that circumscribed their freedom of movement, threatened repatriation, and denied them citizenship, all the while herding them into racially segregated townships. This volume chronicles the broad outlines of this history. Taking the story into the present, it provides an analysis of how Indian South Africans have responded to changes wrought by the remarkable collapse of apartheid and the holding of the first democratic elections in 1994. Drawing upon archival records, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, this study examines the ways in which Indian South Africans define themselves and the world around them, and how they are defined by others. It tells of the incredible journey of Indian South Africans, many of whom are fourth and fifth generation, towards being recognized as citizens in the land of their birth and how, while often attracted by and seeking to explore their roots in India, they continue to dig deeper roots in African soil.
Author: Benjamin Bussey Thatcher
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Theodora Kroeber
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780520240377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: 1961. With new foreword.
Author: Asha Sharma
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0253351588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA moving portrait of a remarkable American who made India home
Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780330371261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Peirce Ebenezer Weaver
Publisher: Рипол Классик
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Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 588248314X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Bussey Thatcher
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 326
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Published: 1832
Total Pages: 338
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Bussey Thatcher
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 822
ISBN-13: 146561611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is well known that the valiant Captain was wont to express his opinions in strong terms, but he has rarely been detected in any great inaccuracy. And the circumstances of this case are in his favor; for it has been truly remarked, that the Powhatan confederacy inhabited a country upon which nature had bestowed singular advantages. Unlike the natives of more northern region, they suffered little from cold, and less from famine. Their settlements were mostly on the banks of James, Elizabeth, Nansamond, York and Chickahominy rivers, all which abounded with the most delicious fish and fowl. In his Potomac expedition, Smith met with "that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets, (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying-pan." And though the captain naturally enough concluded, after some trials, that this was a poor instrument for his purpose, he persists in adding that "neither better fish, more plentie, nor more varietie for small fish had any of vs euer seene in any place so swimming in the water—but they are not to be caught with frying-pans." He found the stingrays in such abundance among the reeds at the mouth of the Rappahannoc, that he amused himself by nailing them to the ground with his sword: "and, thus," he observes, "we tooke more in owne houre than we could eate in a day." Vast quantities of corn, too, yearly rewarded even the simple agriculture of the Indians, bestowed as it was upon the best portions of a generous soil. "Great heapes" of it were seen at Kekoughtan, "and then they brought him venison, turkies, wild fowle, bread and what else they had." In none of his captivities, or his visits among the natives, did the captain ever suffer from want of food; and he often brought off his boat and his men laden with plenty. The Nansamonds gave him 400 baskets-full at one time. The Chickahominies, though they complained extremely of their own wants, yet "fraughted" him with hundred bushels. The woods furnished another inexhaustible supply both of fruits and game; so that, on the whole, it is very easy to believe, that a considerably greater population than Mr. Jefferson's estimate supposes, might have subsisted without much difficulty on the soil they are known to have occupied. "And now the winter [of 1607—8] approaching," we are informed in another passage, "the rivers became so covered with swans, geese, duckes and cranes, that we daily feasted with good bread, Virginia pease, pumpions and putchamins, [FN] fish, fowle, and diverse sorts of wild beasts, so fast as we could eate them; so that none of our Tuftaffaty humourists desired to go for England." On one occasion, when Smith undertook an exploring tour into the interior, late in the season, a violent storm obliged him and his men to keep Christmas among the savages. "And we were never more merry," he relates, "nor fed on more plenty of good oysters, fish, flesh, wild fowle and good bread, nor ever had better fires in England." In a peaceful interval of a few months, which occurred during the next season, the Indians are said to have brought into Jamestown more than a hundred deer and other beasts daily for several weeks.