Chai is more than just (delicious) spiced milk tea. The history of the iconic drink associated with India is one of empire… so, oppression, extraction and exploitation, but also delicious resistance.
With regards to sex and gender, do you want to see the world as it is, or the world as you want it to be? Stock makes an argument for the former.
Sarawak white pepper, anyone? It's an indispensable ingredient in my family's Sino-Southeast Asian kitchen.
Is there an alternative to seemingly inevitable gentrification? Archaeology might offer some hints.
I had once read that across the British Empire, cadres of "natives" were educated in British schools and later recruited as civil servants, forming an uneasy kind of alliance. This appears to have been the case in other Western empires, too.
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