![]() ![]() Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets, edited by Rishma Dunlop and Priscila Uppal, are the daughters of the Empire's retraction and the Dominion's renaissance. In the mid-1950s, though, blatantly racist immigration rules gave way to subtly racist ones, and South Asian-heritage peoples began arriving in Canada from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, as well as lands of previous "exile." Being a proudly white Dominion, Canada utilized bureaucratic legalisms to bar South Asians (along with Africans, "coloured" West Indians, Jews and others) from entering the country during the first half of the last century. ![]() Thus, formal study of English literature was refined in India in the Victorian era (as a "psy op" political prop), while Indian ideas such as karma won the British "homeland." Once India - and Pakistan - achieved independence in 1947, Britain was no longer "Great."īy then, however, Empire-engineered population relocations had occurred, and a South Asian diaspora to Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific established. ![]() India was, in truth, Britain's preferred colony, both for horrendous (and lucrative) exploitation and reciprocal influence. ![]()
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