The seeds of what was to become modern America were planted on May 13, 1607, when British colonists arrived at an island that they would come to call Jamestown in what is now Virginia. This first permanent English settlement in the New World would eventually become...
Despite the stunning advances in modern medicine, the world is becoming increasingly aware of the limitations of mainstream health care. Americans too are realizing that Western medicine has some answers, but not all the answers. It is in this scenario that...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE INDIAN DIASPORA edited by Brij V. Lal. New Delhi, Oxford University Press. 2007. 416 pages. $80. One hundred and fifty years after their ancestors were transported from India to the distant Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, their great great...
SIKHS, SWAMIS, STUDENTS, AND SPIES: THE INDIA LOBBY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1946, by Harold Gould. Hardcover, 460 pages. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. The first half of the 20th century was not the best of times in the United States for early...
SIKHS, SWAMIS, STUDENTS, AND SPIES: THE INDIA LOBBY IN THE UNITED STATES, 1900-1946, by Harold Gould. Hardcover, 460 pages. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California. The first half of the 20th century was not the best of times in the United States for early...
