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Chapter 10 - "I am the best mango!"
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Chapter 10 - "I am the best mango!"

Or a tropical fruit's role in parochialism and identity in India

‘‘Indians and Dogs not Allowed.’

Signs at the entrance, as many Indians bitterly

remember, used to really say that.

Colonial era clubs are places that many of the current

members’ grandfathers were shooed off from, barred

entrance, pushed off as unwelcome nuisances.

These exclusive expats’ reservations were off limits

to the browner race. It seems only logical…

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