"Home Rule in India"
Essay published in the June 1907 (Vol. 12, No. 6) in World Today by the Chicago-based writer Yotindra Bose on home rule in India, outlining the partition of Bengal, and the birth of the Swadeshi movement. Bose emphasizes the diversity of the movement, and quotes extensively from Dadabhoy Naoroji, the president of the 22nd Indian National Congress Conference in December 26, 1906.
The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee
Published in 1888, The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee by Mrs. Caroline Healy Dall is a lengthy biography about Joshee, the first Indian woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S. Joshee was the cousin of Pandita Ramabai, who herself traveled to the U.S. in the 1886 and published the Marathi travelogue United Stateschi Lokastithi any Pravasvrutta (1889).
Jogesh Chander Misrow, "East Indian Immigration on the Pacific Coast" (1915)
Completed in 1915 at Stanford University, “East Indian Immigration on the Pacific Coast” is the Master’s thesis of Jogesh Chander Misrow. Born in Calcutta, Misrow served as an interpreter for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization service (INS). Misrow attended the University of Washington, and later received an M.A. at Stanford.
Political Trouble in India (1907-1917) Political Trouble in India: 1907-1917, written by James Campbell Ker, a colonial Indian Civil Servant who had acted as personal assistant to the director of British criminal intelligence.
Swami Abhedananda, "India and Her People" (1906)
Published by the Vedanta Society in New York, India and Her People (1906) by Swami Abhedananda featured six of the author's lectures delivered before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on or around 1906.
Mohaiyuddin Khan, trader
Khan left Guiana at the age of ten and traced out a seaman's or trader’s trajectory over the course of his life, traveling across the Malay States, India, South America, Africa, Japan, China, Switzerland, Ceylon and Italy. Khan had become a naturalized U.S. citizen the year before. For six months in 1921-1922, he traveled to London to buy skins and hides as an agent for an A.M.
Letter from Kamala Cornelius
Page one of letter from Kamala Cornelius (Pennsylvania College for Women Class of 1918) reprinted in the June 1919 issue of the Alumnae Recorder. The letter includes a discussion of Cornelius' work in Madras, India and how coursework at PCW served to prepare her. The letter offers congratulations to the class of 1919 and is continued on the second page.
Letter from Kamala Cornelius Reprinted in the June 1921 Alumnae Recorder
Letter from Kamala Cornelius (Pennsylvania College for Women Class of 1918) reprinted in the June 1921 issue of the Alumnae Recorder. The letter is dated April 3, 1921 from the A.B.M. Girls' High School and addressed to the Alumnae Association of the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University).
Letter from Kamala Cornelius Reprinted in the June 1922 Alumnae Recorder
Letter from Kamala Cornelius (Pennsylvania College for Women Class of 1918) reprinted in the June 1922 issue of the Alumnae Recorder. The letter is dated April 3, 1922 and from Nellore, S. India. The letter begins with a discussion of Cornelius' return to work in Nellore and continues for three additional pages.