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"By Any Other Name" is the story of two young Indian sisters who start attending an Anglo-Indian school, having been taught up to this point by their mother. In summarizing this story, you'd need to mention that the story is told from the perspective of the younger girl, Santha, who is renamed "Cynthia" by the white headmistress at the school.
Two Indian sisters start at an anglo-indian day school where the headmistress gives them anglo names,Pamela and Cynthia. The little girl doesn't mind because she is only five and completley disassociates between her real "Indian" self and the Cynthia, "anglo-named" self. The school mostly consists of anglo children. The anglo children want nothing to do with the Indian children. The few Indian children in their class sit in the back of the room and are quiet. When the sisters go home at the end of the day, they are happy because they feel free to be Indian. When the day of testing comes the older girl comes into the younger one's room and tells her to come they are going home. (The younger girl doesn't understand why they are leaving early that day.) When they arrive home early the older girl tells her mother that the school teachers say that the Indian children cheat that is why they sit in the back of the room with an empty desk between them. She refuses to go back to that school. Her mother agrees and let's the girls stay home.
Amongst the Chinese, Japanese, Europeans, etc. and other immigrants, the East Indians represent a big group of those who want to be part of the "American culture". ... And although most of them had been farmers of farm laborers in the Punjab region of India, in America they often had to turn to other kinds of work (Dayes 22). ... They were called by insulting names such as "rag-heads" and treated as inferior beings (Hundley 38). ... Many of them share the name Singh (lion), a sacred to Sikhs (Koritala 3). ... rule, they would not buy meat that had been prepared by other hands. ...
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