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Considered a masterpiece in Marathi literature, his novel for the first time brings to the world of literature the trials and tribulations of his tribe, Uchalya, literally the pilferers, a term coined by the British who classified the tribe as a criminal tribe. This book also brings in the problems faced by the Dalits in India. At present he is ...
Backroads Pragmatists: Mexico's Melting Pot and Civil Rights in the United States is a history book by Ruben Flores about the connection between post-revolutionary Mexico and the American Civil Rights Movement. University of Pennsylvania Press published the book in 2014. It won the Society for U.S. Intellectual History Book Award the next year.
Before US President James K. Polk took office in 1845, the US Congress approved the annexation of Texas.After the annexation, Polk wished to affirm control of the region of Texas between the Nueces River, where Mexico claimed Texas's southern border to be, and the Rio Grande, where Texas declared the border to be when they declared independence from Mexico in 1836.
The Oxnard strike of 1903 is one of the first recorded instances of an organized strike by Mexican Americans in United States history. [152] The Mexican and Japanese American strikers raised the ire of the surrounding white American community. While picketing, one laborer, Luis Vasquez, was shot and killed, and four others were wounded. [153]
The Marathi Vishwakosh (lit. ' Marathi Encyclopedia ') is an online free encyclopedia in Marathi language, funded by the Government of Maharashtra, India. [1] [2] The project to create the encyclopedia started as a print project and was inaugurated in 1960, and Lakshman Shastri Joshi was named the first president of the project. The first ...
Mumbai Marathi Grantha Sangrahalaya has a collection of more than 645,569 books in the Marathi language. Some of the books are more than 200 years old. Some rare books kept by the library include Geeta Rahasya written by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Vishnushastri Chiplunkar's essays, Mao Che Laskari Avahan on the 1962 Sino-Indian War and a book named ...
The Garza Revolution was one of many outbreaks of rebellion during the four decades of Porfirio Diaz' regime. In September, Garza issued a statement, declaring that the citizens of Mexico were "treated like ' despicable slaves, ' that the Mexican government was plagued by ' frightful corruption, ' that freedom of the press had been squashed, and that the Constitution of 1857 had been betrayed.
Taking on Goliath: The emergence of a new left party and the struggle for democracy in Mexico. Penn State Press, 2010. Camp, Roderic Ai. "Learning democracy in Mexico and the United States." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 19.1 (2003): 3-27. Castañeda, Jorge. Perpetuating Power: How Mexican Presidents were Chosen. The New Press 2000.