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October 2017 Will Mark the 55th Anniversary
of Internment of Chinese-Indians in India
Victims of a Cold War Conflict that
Shattered Families, Ruined Businesses,
and Left its Mark on one 13-Year-Old Girl
October 2017 will mark the 55th anniversary of a shameful event that has rarely had the world’s attention and has never been acknowledged or redressed by the Indian government.
Yin Marsh's memoir recounts her family’s internment in a Rajasthan Desert camp in Western India. Marsh was only 13 when she, her aged grandmother, younger brother and father were held with hundreds of other Chinese-Indians--individuals and families--as a result of the 1962 China-India Border War. Few Americans know about this historical moment as our nation was enmeshed in another Cold War era conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis) at the time.
To interview the author or place an order, contact: Yin Marsh, [email protected]
October 2017 will mark the 55th anniversary of a shameful event that has rarely had the world’s attention and has never been acknowledged or redressed by the Indian government.
Yin Marsh's memoir recounts her family’s internment in a Rajasthan Desert camp in Western India. Marsh was only 13 when she, her aged grandmother, younger brother and father were held with hundreds of other Chinese-Indians--individuals and families--as a result of the 1962 China-India Border War. Few Americans know about this historical moment as our nation was enmeshed in another Cold War era conflict (the Cuban Missile Crisis) at the time.
To interview the author or place an order, contact: Yin Marsh, [email protected]
Publisher: Sugartown Publishing
Release date: September 2012
Category: Memoir/History
Price: $14.95
($20 with CA sales tax/shipping)
ISBN: 978-0-9786517-8-7
http://doingtimewithnehru.com
BACKGROUND
Born in Calcutta, in 1949, and raised in Darjeeling, Marsh was only 13 when, first her father was arrested, and then Yin, her aged grandmother hampered by bound feet, and an eight-year-old brother were all arrested, held in the Darjeeling Jail, and then sent to Deoli Camp in Rajasthan, central India. Ironically, Prime Minister Nehru, who authorized the mass arrests, had once “done time” in Deoli during India’s war for independence. Yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where Nehru had also been unjustly held.
Eventually released, Marsh emigrated to America with her mother, attended college, married and raised her own family, even as the emotional trauma remained buried. The internment not only led to the family’s loss of businesses and property, but contributed to her parents’ divorce and the permanent separation of family members.
When Marsh’s college-age daughter began to ask questions -- and when a friend’s wedding would require a return to her homeland -- Yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family. Doing Time with Nehru is the result of several years of research and work to get her story down, in the hopes of raising attention to this event and events like it that can quickly destroy a community and harm innocent lives.
Yin Marsh received a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in East Asian Studies with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from American University, Washington, D.C., in 1971. She taught Korean and Chinese post-doctorate visiting scholars at the University of California Berkeley and has worked as a visual artist. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, a retired foreign service officer. They raised a son and daughter who also reside in California and continue the family globetrotting tradition.
Release date: September 2012
Category: Memoir/History
Price: $14.95
($20 with CA sales tax/shipping)
ISBN: 978-0-9786517-8-7
http://doingtimewithnehru.com
BACKGROUND
Born in Calcutta, in 1949, and raised in Darjeeling, Marsh was only 13 when, first her father was arrested, and then Yin, her aged grandmother hampered by bound feet, and an eight-year-old brother were all arrested, held in the Darjeeling Jail, and then sent to Deoli Camp in Rajasthan, central India. Ironically, Prime Minister Nehru, who authorized the mass arrests, had once “done time” in Deoli during India’s war for independence. Yin and her family were assigned to the same bungalow where Nehru had also been unjustly held.
Eventually released, Marsh emigrated to America with her mother, attended college, married and raised her own family, even as the emotional trauma remained buried. The internment not only led to the family’s loss of businesses and property, but contributed to her parents’ divorce and the permanent separation of family members.
When Marsh’s college-age daughter began to ask questions -- and when a friend’s wedding would require a return to her homeland -- Yin was finally ready to face what had happened to her family. Doing Time with Nehru is the result of several years of research and work to get her story down, in the hopes of raising attention to this event and events like it that can quickly destroy a community and harm innocent lives.
Yin Marsh received a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in East Asian Studies with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from American University, Washington, D.C., in 1971. She taught Korean and Chinese post-doctorate visiting scholars at the University of California Berkeley and has worked as a visual artist. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, a retired foreign service officer. They raised a son and daughter who also reside in California and continue the family globetrotting tradition.
P.O. Box 128
Crockett, CA 94525
ph: 510-290-6254
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