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Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down. -- Gene Luen Yang
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? -- Neel Mukherjee

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