Brahmadesh Quotes

“Racial tensions were evident from Ramnath’s first destination, the southern bazaar town of Margui, as a Burmese headmaster complained to him about the town’s Indians:
The Indians have taken away all government jobs from us … The Chettis are buying our land and houses, the Bengali Muslims have occupied all navigational jobs. The foreigners are now everywhere in our country and we are now fast becoming extinct. I am scared of foreigners. We are now trying to take Brahmadesh [Burma] out of India, and we will definitely be successful.”
― Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia