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India: A Public Meeting
Bulletin for a free public meeting on April 13, 1944 in favor of the pending legislation authorizing immigration and naturalization of Nationals of India. Speakers include: Emanuel Celler, co-author of pending legislation, Fannie Hurst, Dr. Frank Kingdon, Rev Elmore M. McKee, and Roger N. Baldwin.

Letter from Taraknath Das to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee
Letter dated September 12, 1944 from Taraknath Das, Ph.D., Department of History at the College of the City of New York, to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee. Das writes in support of the naturalization of Indians who reside in the US. Das wrote that he obtained American citizenship in 1914 and believes the current American immigration laws are discriminatory.

"Insult To India"
Washington News article published on May 4, 1944 detailing reasons for the support of the ‘Luce-Celler Bill’, which would permit the naturalization of Indian nationals in the U.S on a quota basis. The article states the bill should be supported as an immediate war time measure to counter Japanese propaganda as well as for post-war economic and foreign trade purposes.

Letter from A.D. Singh to A. Choudry
Letter written April 1, 1944 from A.D. Singh to A. Choudry, Secretary of India Association for American Citizenship, Inc. in response to a request for biographical information on Singh, a chemical engineer. Singh disclosed several of the projects he worked on in the past and at the time of writing.

Letter from India Welfare League, Ind. to Senate Immigration and Naturalization Committee
Letter dated September 13, 1944 written by Ramlal B. Bajpai, Vice-President of India Welfare League, Inc to Senate Immigration and Naturalization Committee in regards to the naturalization of Indian nationals in the United States.

Letter from S.S. Sidhu to A. Choudry
Letter dated April 7, 1944 from S.S. Sidhu, Professor of Physics at The University of Pittsburgh to A. Choudry, Secretary of India Association for American Citizenship, Inc. The letter contained an enclosure which detailed biographical data about S.S. Sidhu (see https://www.saada.org/item/20151005-4492).

Biographical Data for S.S. SIdhu
A short list of life and career biographical data for S.S. Sidhu, Professor of Physics at Pittsburgh University. The data was an enclosure of a letter to A. Choudry from S. Sidhu (see https://www.saada.org/item/20151005-4491).

Letter from S. Chandrasekhar to A. Choudry
Handwritten letter dated April 1, 1944 from S. Chandrasekhar to A. Choudry. The letter contains biographical information about S. Chandrasekhar’s life and career and appears to be in response to a request from A. Choudry.

India Association For American Citizenship, Inc. Press Release
A press release with unknown date created by India Association For American Citizenship, Inc. in regards to the legislation concerning the naturalization of Indian nationals in the U.S.. N.R.

"List Of Outstanding Indian Scientists Now Living In U.S."
This document, of unknown date, contains the names and short biographies of six Indian scientists who resided in the U.S. The scientists are: Dr. S. Chandrasekhar, Dr. D. Saklatwalla, Dr. V.R. Kokatnur, Dr. Y. Subbarow, Kam Nath Kathju, and Dr. A.D. Singh.

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