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...suburbs, where many of France's marginalized North African communities live. The Goutte d'Or quarter is right in the 18th arrondissement of the capital. "This neighborhood, you wouldn't even know you are in Paris," says Naresh Patel, a 44-year-old Hindu Indian who runs a stall under the elevated metro tracks. "Here people preserve their North African Muslim heritage at the expense of being French. France has done such a poor job of integrating its immigrants...
...filing shows no current ownership of either Morgan Stanley’s or the Blackstone Group’s funds that invest in Indian companies. Harvard’s previous investment in these two funds had represented an approximately $320,000 investment in Bharat, another firm that invests in Sudanese energy...
...subject of The Last Mughal is Delhi itself. Dalrymple wants to prove that, far from being decadent and in terminal decline as is often thought, late Mughal Delhi was a thriving city, full of poets, artists and traders. Religiously eclectic, Delhi culture freely blended Hindu and Muslim influences. Although Indian nationalist memory glorifies cities along the Ganges like Kanpur as the centers of the revolt, Dalrymple suggests that Delhi was the true locus of the 1857 uprising. Drawing on contemporary accounts from the Indian and British sides, he paints a vivid portrait of a city under siege, giddy with...
Native-American Atrocities In 2005, Kansas' SAM BROWNBACK led the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to approve an apology to Native Americans for past abuses, but the bill never got a floor vote...
...deep interest in oppressed peoples throughout the world. The Pan-African movement and early black nationalism were part of emerging notions of black solidarity. Blacks took deep pride in the Haitian revolution, and black American missionaries played an important role in the Christianization of Jamaican and other West Indian blacks. Black Americans were also open to the inspiration of black immigrants: W.E.B. DuBois's father was Haitian; James Weldon Johnson's mother, Bahamian. One of the first mass movements of African Americans was led by a Jamaican, Marcus Garvey, in the '20s. An impressive number of black leaders and civil...