Ever heard of Indian Citizenship Act ! ~ that has nothing to do with
India !!
Movie is only a form of entertainment, yet there are some
films / some scenes that move us. Shankar directed ‘Indian’ [Bharatheeyudu] was a good film. To many the hero was not the young Kamal but the older Indian
Senapathy. The flashback in black & white was really moving taking us to
older days, especially the footage of the great Nethaji Subash Chandra Bose. The story shows Senapathi as a young valiant fighter joining Bose’s army with the full support of his wife Amirthavalli.
The handful of Nation’s soil to be smeared on forehead daily is poetic. Senapathi gets captured, survives the brutalities and comes to back in free
India riddled with corruption, and he fights that !!
Way back in Apr 1994,
India played UAE – Atul Bedade and Bhupinder Singh debuted alongside 11 players
for UAE – India won by 71 runs. The
Emirates' reply of 202 was more than respectable and lasted the full 50 overs. Riaz
Poonawala opened for UAE raced to 22
from 14 balls, remember he played for India U25 against touring Australians in
1986 (an Indian turned UAE !)
Former India U-19 World
Cup-winner Smit Patel has confirmed retiring from Indian cricket. Smit, who now
lives in the US, was picked up by Barbados Tridents for the upcoming Caribbean
Premier League (CPL). The update had sort of confirmed that he wasn't going to
return to Indian domestic cricket as the BCCI's rules don't permit an Indian
player to play overseas leagues. Smit can play overseas leagues from now on but
can't ply his trade in the Indian Premier League.
Smit scored a vital 62*
off 84 in the 2012 U-19 WC final against the home team, Australia, in
Townsville. He joined skipper Unmukt Chand when India were reeling at 97/4 in
the chase to the target of 226. The duo stitched a match-winning partnership of
130 runs and propelled India to their 3rd title victory. Smit hit
the winning shot too for the Men in
Blue. Since he has now switched to the US, Smit will be eligible to play
international cricket for the USA cricket team once he completes the residency
period.
To us, the term ‘Indian’
proudly represents the Nationals and Citizens of India, containing 17.50% of the world's population.
In India, the term "Indian" refers to nationality, rather than a
particular ethnicity or language; the Indian nationality consists of dozens of
regional ethno-linguistic groups, reflecting the rich and complex history of
the country. Due to emigration, the Indian diaspora is present throughout the
world, notably in other parts of Asia, North America, Europe, the Caribbean,
Oceania, and Africa.
India has a rich history
which includes the prehistoric settlements and societies in the Indian
subcontinent; the blending of the Indus Valley Civilization; the rise of sixteen oligarchic republics known
as Mahajanapadas; greatest empires and dynasties in South Asian
history like the Maurya Empire, Satavahana dynasty, Gupta Empire, Rashtrakuta
dynasty, Chalukya Empire, Chera, Chola
Pandya, Pallava Empire, and more .. ..
Moving away,
the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, also
known as the Snyder Act, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the
United States Congress that granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of
the United States, called "Indians" in the Act. While the Fourteenth
Amendment to the United States Constitution defines as citizens any persons
born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction, the amendment had
previously been interpreted by the courts to not apply to Native peoples. The
act was proposed by Representative Homer P. Snyder (R) of New York, and signed
into law by President Calvin Coolidge on June 2, 1924. It was enacted partially
in recognition of the thousands of Native Americans who served in the armed
forces during the First World War.
Under Article One of the
United States Constitution, "Indians not taxed"
were not counted in the population of a state for purposes of apportionment. The
earliest recorded date of Native people becoming US citizens was in 1831 when
the Mississippi Choctaw became citizens after the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit
Creek of 1830 was ratified. Under article XIV of that treaty, any Choctaw who
elected not to move to Native American Territory could become an American
citizen when he registered and if he stayed on designated lands for five years
after treaty ratification. The US Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford
(1857) said that Native people could become citizens, though their acquisition
of citizenship was by way of naturalization (ie., not by birth within US
territory)
Native Americans, also
known as American Indians, First Americans,
Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United
States; sometimes including Hawaii and territories of the United States, and
other times limited to the mainland. There are 574 federally recognized tribes
living within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian
reservations. The ancestors of living
Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years
ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. After its
formation, the United States, as part of its policy of settler colonialism,
continued to wage war and perpetrated massacres against many Native American
peoples, removed them from their ancestral lands, and subjected them to
one-sided treaties and to discriminatory government policies, later focused on
forced assimilation, into the 20th century
The term American Indian
is often used to refer to the indigenous cultures of the Western Hemisphere in
general; its constituent parts were in use from at least the early 16th
century. The word Indian came to be used because
Christopher Columbus repeatedly expressed the mistaken belief that he had
reached the shores of South Asia. Convinced he was correct, Columbus fostered
the use of the term Indios (originally, “person from the Indus valley”) to refer
to the peoples of the so-called New World. The term America came into use as a
referent to the continents of the Western Hemisphere as early as 1507, when the
German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller published a map naming them after the
Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The word American was soon thereafter
appended to Indian to differentiate the indigenous peoples of these regions
from those of South Asia.
Interesting !
2nd June 2021.
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