My idea of India as a closed society was like a bedtime story: Kusum

Kalyani, K (2018) My idea of India as a closed society was like a bedtime story: Kusum. GRFDT.

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The interview below is of Kusum, who is from the French Reunion Island. She was born out of an Indian mother and a French father. Her forefathers were taken to the Reunion as indentured laborers. Indians were taken to reunion as indentured laborers between the years 1860 to 1936. Other than indentured laborers Guajarati businessman also went to Reunion. The French government have encouraged their assimilation into the French society however, Indian community managed to preserve their ‘Indianess’ through religious and cultural traditions. With growing connectivity with India, the Indian identity has been reasserted and is very much visible in their everyday life of the Indian community.

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