In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical...
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Author:Summary: - Author:Irani, AnoshSummary:
From the bestselling author of The Parcel and Song of Kahunsha, here's a sweet yet tart collection of seven gem-like stories, capped off by an unforgettable short memoir about living between Canada and India for 20 years....
- Author:Patel, SajniSummary:
Strong-willed and proudly single, an engineer walks out when her parents set her up with a lawyer -- but when work brings them together again, she just might give love a second chance. Liya Thakkar is a successful biochemical engineer,...
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Author:Collins, WilkieSummary:Rachel Verinder is given an extraordinary diamond for her 18th birthday by her uncle, a British officer who served in India. That very night the diamond disappears. Considered the first detective novel in the English language, this...
- Author:Burkowicz, TaslimSummary:
The Desirable Sister uses the framework of "colourism" to expose the circumstances of two sisters who are born into the same family with two different skin tones: one with skin fair enough she passes for white, the other with...
- Author:Singh, JuliettaSummary:
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world while celebrating queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the binaries that shape US discourse.
- Author:Gowda, Shilpi SomayaSummary:
Secret Daughter, a first novel by Shilpi Somaya Gowda, explores powerfully and poignantly the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity, and love through the experiences of two families—one Indian, one American—and the child that...
- Author:Weeks, SarahSummary:
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade...
- Author:Divakaruni, Chitra BanerjeeSummary:
Nine people get trapped in the basement of an Indian consulate after an earthquake hits their American city. Emotions run high as the building begins to flood and the chance of survival dwindles. In oder to set their minds at ease, one...
- Author:Sinha, Pamela MalaSummary:
It's 1970s Winnipeg - a time of revolution and radical possibilities - and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim woman, Nuzha, has just married Qasim...
- Author:Ali, MonicaSummary:
Set in London now, Love Marriage marks the magnificent return of Monica Ali, the Booker Prize shortlisted, "splendid, daring, brilliant, refreshing" novelist (The New Republic) "with an inborn generosity that cannot be...
- Author:Winspear, JacquelineSummary:
The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to...
- Author:Mandanna, SanguSummary:
For fans of the Aru Shah and Serpent's Secret series, this action-packed fantasy-adventure sees a girl's drawings of Indian mythology spring to vivid life-including the evil god who seeks to enter the real world and destroy it. Kiki...
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Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Two English people take a road trip from an unnamed African capitol to their enclave. The further they travel, the more they cross the line separating privileged outsiders from horrified victims.
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Author:Naipaul, V. S.Summary:Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste
- Author:Neelan GovenderSummary:
Girrmit Tales, by Neelan Govender, is a collection of unusual stories of Indian indentured labourers in Natal.
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Author:Begamudré, VenSummary:In Extended Families: A Memoir of India, award-winning author Ven Begamudre traces the history of both sides of his family, telling a story that is both timeless and universal.
Winner, Regina Public Library Book of the...
- Author:Ruthnum, NabenSummary:
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that...
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Author:Nanji, ShenaazSummary:It is 1972, and fifteen-year-old Sabine enjoys a comfortable life as the daughter of Indian parents living in Uganda. But her world is turned upside down when the country’s military President, General Idi Amin, declares Indians must be...
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