11 Sep The Colonial Eye: When Britain’s middle class came to India to find opportunity, status and love
Contemporary conversations about immigration focus on Asians, Arabs, Africans...
11 May The Colonial Eye: Mark Twain in India – Going Beyond Oriental Tropes
Mark Twain, who died 108 years ago, on April 21, 1910, is one of America’s most...
29 Mar The Colonial Eye – As the British Saw and Described Indians: The Delhi Durbar of 1903
The Durbar of 1903 was held in Delhi to celebrate the succession of British monarch...
16 Mar When President Franklin Roosevelt clashed with Winston Churchill over India’s future
In a provocative article in the Washington Post last week, Indian member...
01 Nov The Colonial Eye – As the British Saw and Described Indians: Maharajas and Baboos Satirized
The British “comic paper” Punch (subtitled The London Charivari), ran from 1841 to 2002...
06 Oct “The Strongest Bond of Fraternity”
Indians and African Americans share longstanding social and political connections that go back to the late 19th century...
06 Sep The Colonial Eye: As the British Saw and Described Indians
“The ‘Gorgeous East’, if robbed of the vivid colouring which is its greatest charm, would cease to please the only one of the...
06 Aug The China-Burma-India (CBI) Theater
India’s role in the China-Burma-India (CBI) theater during World War II is relatively unknown. The “China-Burma-India theater”...
01 Jul American G.I. life in India during World War II
"Dear Mom, I got a valet" wrote one American in his letter home (from Calcutta) in November, 1942. He had just discovered...
22 May The Lend-Lease Program in Eastern India (WW-II)
“There is no civilian counterpart for the world's longest pipeline to China. It is truly an outstanding engineering achievement...
03 Mar A “Dusky Peril”: Trade Unions Resent Indian Labor
“Work is plentiful in the mills. In fact too plentiful and this is responsible for the ease with which the foreigners have found...
02 Feb United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923)
“The decision of the United States Supreme Court that Hindus are not eligible to American citizenship , is most welcome to California...
01 Jan The Hart-Celler Act (1965) heralds a new era for Indian immigrants
“This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills...