LekhoriLekhoriTo pull up by the roots; to uproot; to extirpate.
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture!
To force (people) from their homeland to a new or foreign location.
To liberate or be liberated from a culture or its norms.
Observing the highest echelons of Indian society, she notes the way in which some Indians become completely — almost absurdly — anglicized or deracinated.
PIE word *wréh₂ds First attested in 1609; calque of French déraciner on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from racine (“root”), from Latin rādīx, rādīcis (“a root”).
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