Postcard from Abnashi Ram to Raj and Roshan Sharma
Postcard from Abnashi Ram to Roshan Sharma. The note reads: "Dear Raj-Rosh - Mr. K.L Dixit passed away yesterday - address 127 University Ave, Palo Alto, CA. Love to you all, was so happy to see you. A. Ram."
Letter from Abnashi Ram to M.R. Ahuja
Letter dated March 17, 1950 from Abnashi Ram to M.R. Ahuja. Abnashi Ram wanted to tell M.R. Ahuja that he had sent some items to him while M.R. Ahuja was aboard the S.S. Himalaya. Ram also expressed interest in meeting with Ahuja in New York when they both arrived.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to M.R. Ahuja
Letter from Abnashi Ram to M.R. Ahuja discussing his points of view on the current social and political situation in India and Pakistan, including commentary about Krishna Menon, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Bhagwan Gyanee. Ram also discusses activities in the U.S., involving Syud Hossain, Watumull, and Bhagwan Singh Gyanee.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dalip Singh Saund
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dalip Singh Saund informing Saund of his arrival to Washington D.C. with the goal of launching support for increased dialogue and harmony between India and the U.S. The letter also contains Ram’s political views on communism.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Anup Singh
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Anup Singh, relating that while attempting to establish a friendship society between India and the US (with the help of Dalip Singh Saund), Ram encountered Singh’s nephew Satwant. Ram reminisces on his and Singh’s shared past working in rice fields, and discusses a wide range of politicians from India and across the world.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath, asking why Ram has not heard from Nath in weeks, relaying news of the death of a mutual friend’s wife, and inquiring after an uncle’s illness.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath Varma
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath. Ram praises Dwight Eisenhower’s administration and remarks on the prosperity of the US, but concedes that he and Nath are on different political “poles.” He shares news of his family and makes observations about the situation in Pakistan, concluding that it is “the Communists we have to watch.”
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath Varma
Letter from Abnashi Ram to Dina Nath, discussing Ram’s meetings with Congressman Dalip Singh Saund. Ram also met Indian politician V.K. Krishna Menon, but refused to shake his hand, as Ram considered him “a McCarthy type.”
Letter from Abnashi Ram to G.D. Birla
Letter from Abnashi Ram to G.D. Birla, in which Ram refers to Bank of America’s interest in investing several million dollars in “prospective manufacturing enterprises,” an offer in which Birla was apparently uninterested. Ram thanks Birla for his past service to India’s independence movement and warns that a “strong atomic force” is needed to offset the threat of communism.
Letter from Abnashi Ram to G.D. Birla
Letter from Abnashi Ram to G.D. Birla, in which Ram refers to Bank of America’s interest in investing several million dollars in “prospective manufacturing enterprises,” an offer in which Birla was apparently uninterested. Ram thanks Birla for his past service to India’s independence movement and warns that a “strong atomic force” is needed to offset the threat of communism.