President of Uganda Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country. At the time, South Asians in East...
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occupying Uganda and Amin fleeing into exile. The Ugandan economy was devastated by Idi Amin's policies, including the expulsion of Asians, the nationalisation...
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Idi Amin (redirect from His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, CBE, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular)
Asian-Americans following Amin's 1972 expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Amin is the subject of English journalist Giles Foden's novel The Last King of...
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invasion of Uganda in April 1972. The operation was easily crushed by the Uganda Army. In August 1972, Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, confiscating...
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1923 Expulsion of Asians from Uganda Nativism in United States politics#Asian targets Racism against Asian Americans, covers the history of anti-Asian racism...
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The Expulsion of Jews from Spain was the expulsion of practicing Jews following the Alhambra Decree in 1492, which was enacted to eliminate their influence...
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coup d'état in 1971. The following year, Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians living in Uganda. As a result, many Indians migrated to the United Kingdom...
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the Expulsion of Asians in Uganda in 1972. Since Amin's overthrow in 1979 some Asians have returned. There are between 15,000 and 25,000 in Uganda today...
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Aga Khan IV (category Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic)
independence of African countries from colonial rule, the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, the independence of Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan from the...
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Germans in Tanganyika. The Ugandan national costume known as the Gomesi was designed by a Goan. The Expulsion of Asians from Uganda by Idi Amin in 1972 virtually...
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transported out of Uganda if he assassinates Amin, which Garrigan refuses. In 1972, Amin orders the expulsion of Asians from Uganda over Garrigan's protests...
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President Idi Amin presided over the expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972, the UDC gained control over some of the largest enterprises previously controlled...
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Jainism in the United Kingdom (category Articles lacking in-text citations from February 2014)
Amin expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Most of the Gujarati Jains from East Africa belonged either to the Visa Oshwal community, originally from the Halar...
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Sugra Visram (category Members of the Parliament of Uganda)
Association (YWCA) in Uganda and was its treasurer. After the expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972, Visram worked in the Education department of the Commonwealth...
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Mississippi Masala (category Films shot in Uganda)
made a part of The Criterion Collection on May 24, 2022. In 1972, dictator Idi Amin enacts a policy of forceful expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Jay, his...
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defending the expulsion in terms of giving Uganda back to the ethnic Ugandans. About a thousand Ugandan Asians fled to India after the expulsion as well as...
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Cyprian Fernandes (category Use dmy dates from January 2024)
Fernandes obtained one of the earliest interviews with Idi Amin, who was responsible for the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, travelled with President...
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Ashish Thakkar (category Wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from June 2018)
as part of Belvoir S form group. His parents had moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 when Idi Amin enforced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Thakkar...
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Avtar Brah (category Ugandan people of Punjabi descent)
refugee in Britain after Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians from Uganda. She began her PhD in the mid-1970s, researching Asian communities in Southall, and moved...
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to include those Asians engaged in commerce. The movement was called the "Exodus". In 1972, all South Asians were expelled from Uganda by the controversial...
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Bruce Douglas-Mann (category Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford)
had known" and the following year, when Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians from Uganda he said that returning them would be "like sending Jews back...
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British Punjabis (category British people of Punjabi descent)
UK amidst growing discrimination at home, symbolised by the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda in 1972. Unlike earlier Punjabi migration to the UK, East African...
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The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its...
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migrated followed by smaller groups of Indians and Sri Lankans, including those fleeing Uganda during the Asian expulsion. Early migrants primarily sought...
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of the South Asians living in Uganda are Hindus. There is a Swaminarayan temple in Kampala. These numbers are total, and include non-Hindus from Asia...
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Godfrey Serunkuma Lule (category Ministers of justice of Uganda)
private enterprises from the government of Uganda. He also had to deal with the legal consequences the Expulsion of Asians from Uganda where Idi Amin ordered...
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Convenience store (category Use dmy dates from April 2024)
African-born Indians, expelled from their homelands by the newly independent countries' rulers (see Expulsion of Asians from Uganda). Under the Shops Act 1950...
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Isaac Maliyamungu (category Democratic Republic of the Congo emigrants to Uganda)
When Amin ordered the expulsion of Asians from Uganda, Maliyamungu was placed on a committee to oversee the distribution of their wealth, taking much...
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decades after the expulsion of Ugandan Asians". COMPAS. Retrieved 5 June 2024. "Uganda: Return of the exiles". Independent.co.uk. Archived from the original...
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Mer (community) (category Social groups of Gujarat)
migrate to Africa. Many of the early migrants were from the highlands villages. Following the expulsion of Asians from Uganda many Mers settled in Britain...
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