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Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston
The Mahatma Gandhi District is an ethnic enclave in Houston, Texas, United States, named after Mahatma Gandhi, consisting predominantly of Indian and Pakistani restaurants and shops and having a large Indian/Pakistani population. The area is commonly referred to as "Hillcroft," after Hillcroft Avenue, a major thoroughfare which houses much of the Mahatma Gandhi district. It is also occasionally called "Little India."〔Shilcut, Katharine. "Little India." ''Houston Press''. Wedmesday May 25, 2011. (1 ). Retrieved on May 26, 2011.〕
==History==
In 1985 the Gahunias, an Indian American family, opened Raja Sweets in an area which at the time did not have a concentration of Indian American businesses; the family arrived in Houston in 1981.〔Shilcut, Katharine. "Little India." ''Houston Press''. Wedmesday May 25, 2011. (2 ). Retrieved on May 26, 2011.〕 Within a three-year period, India Grocers opened a location in the area. As time passed, more and more Indian American and Pakistani American businesses moved to the area. Existing Indian American businesses in the area expanded.〔Shilcut, Katharine. "Little India." ''Houston Press''. Wedmesday May 25, 2011. (3 ). Retrieved on May 26, 2011.〕
While being made up of Indian shops and having a large Indian population for a long time, it was not officially named until January 16, 2010 when the City of Houston held a naming ceremony.〔Moreno, Jenalia. "(Signs of identity )." ((Archive )) ''Houston Chronicle''. January 16, 2010. Retrieved on January 28, 2010.〕 The Mayor of Houston, Annise Parker, and the Consul General of India in Houston, Sanjiv Arora, announced the name change. The Indian American community proposed marking the area as a South Asian enclave for a seven-year period until the founding of the Gandhi District.〔"(Now Houston has a Mahatma Gandhi district )." ''The Hindu''. January 26, 2010. Retrieved on January 28, 2010.〕 The India Culture Center and several South Asian merchants originally wanted to rename a stretch of Hillcroft Avenue to Mahatma Gandhi Avenue; however that required signatures of 75% of commercial property owners of the given part of the street. Manisha Gandhi Mehta, a spokesperson for the opening event that was held on January 16, 2010, said that the organizers of the district found difficulty in getting non-South Asian merchants to agree to the renaming of the street. In 2009 the head members of the India Culture Center and several South Asian merchants agreed to pay $10,000 for the street signage that designates the area as the district.〔
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