SEATTLE ‘ANTI-CASTE’ LEGISLATION: A LAW THAT ASSUMES ALL HINDUS AND INDIANS TO BE BIGOTED
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Five hundred white men calling themselves the Asiatic Exclusion League attacked South Asian Indian workers, forcing them to flee north to British Columbia, Canada. That was over one hundred years ago. The Puget Sound American, a local daily newspaper, approvingly asked “Have we a dusky peril?,” saying the “Hindu caste system” was a reason to “keep the Hindus out.”
Read more at: https://swarajyamag.com/world/seattle-anti-caste-legislation-a-law-that-assumes-all-hindus-and-indians-to-be-bigoted
- 28 Feb 2023
- WerIndia
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