is hard to know what effect his exposure to the social order in America had on him personally. But over the years, he paid close attention, as did many Dalits, to the subordinate caste in America. Indians had long been aware of the plight of enslaved Africans and of their descendants in the pre–Civil War United States. Back in the 1870s, after the end of slavery and during the brief window of black advancement known as Reconstruction, an Indian social reformer named Jotiba Phule found inspiration in the abolitionists. He expressed hope “that my countrymen may take their noble example as their
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So interesting that globalization is seen as a new phenomenon when countries affect each other and share commonalities and always have. Yet our history books look at us in a vacuum. This provides a little more context for the pics of BLM signs in India last summer
