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Patels From Hell: Importing Fraud From The Indian Subcontinent

Many motels in America are owned by people named Patel, Indian immigrants who not only have a tradition of “entrepreneurship”, but benefit from minority set-asides and loans from the Small Business Administration.

According to the Wall Street Journal writer Tunku Varadjaran, Patels are members of a particular Hindu subcaste:

…vaishyas, or traders, who were once employed to calculate the tithes that were owed to medieval kings by farmers in Gujarat, an Indian state on the Arabian Sea, where their origins lie. Most Indians believe that these people have commerce in their blood. And the Patels themselves seem to believe it, too.

A Patel Motel Cartel? New York Times Magazine, July 4, 1999]

But serious research also needs to be done to see if the Patels have criminality in their blood. Almost every time I look through law enforcement records for the latest Indian American rip-off, it’s a Patel. ...

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