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Article: India and New Zealand: a sixty-year roller coaster: Sekhar Bandyopadhyay reviews the evolution of New Zealand-India relations.(Essay)
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- New Zealand International Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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Historically relations between New Zealand and India go back to the time when both were parts of the same British Empire. Within this imperial structure of exchange, consumer goods from India--such as rum, tobacco, tea, rice and curry powder--regularly found their way into New Zealand markets in the 19th century, and New Zealand timber was shipped off to India to pay for these imports. By the early 20th century many New Zealanders regarded India as a prized possession of the British Empire. And the dominant ideology of that empire also shaped their attitudes to India and the Indians, who were regarded as distant and civilisationally inferior members of the imperial family, ...