Reworlding

"Any study of the literatures of the Indian diaspora must begin with the original moment of migration and the circumstances that made people leave the lower Gangetic Plains or the "Madras Presidency" in the first instance to help produce the preeminent stimulant, sugar, "an indispensable additive to sauces and pastry, as well as a sweetener for innumerable cups of tea," for the industrializing areas of the Western world (Wolf, 333)."