Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Santha Rama Rau" in English language version.
Here Rama Rau details how her mother's ancestors had fled Muslim invaders three hundred years ago ("to settle inappropriately enough, in another Muslim stronghold, Allahabad"). Despite being migrants-and, of course, because of it-the women of the family preserved Kashmiri customs such as brewing green tea, cooking in ghee as opposed to oil, and preferring a variety of breads to rice. In all of this, their fierce sense of origins, their strong feeling for the "Kashmiri Brahmin" community," remained undiminished even though they were exiled in uncomprehending, if not hostile territory.
