Photograph of Bagai and Chandra families
Photograph of Bagai and Chandra families. From far left to right: Ramesh Chandra, Mahesh Chandra, Vaishno Das Bagai and Kala Bagai. The woman holding the flowers next to Kala is Mahesh's sister, Prabha Chandra.
Pardaman Singh, Ethnological Epitome of the Hindustanees of the Pacific Coast
Booklet titled "Ethnological Epitome of the Hindustanees of the Pacific Coast" by Dr. Pardaman Singh, published in 1922 by the the Pacific Coast Khalsa Diwan Society in Stockton, California. The purpose of the booklet, Singh mentions in the opening, is to prove that "Hindustanees at present residing in California and other Pacific Coast states belong to the Aryan race.
"Why Must We Emigrate to the United States of America?"
Responding to Shiv Narayen's article "Why Emigrate?" published in Modern Review (Nov. 1910), Sarangadhar Das makes the case for Indians studying the United States. Das provides details about Punjabi laborers and the anti-Asiatic politics they faced, while also displaying himself some anti-Sikh sentiment. Das responds to Narayen's claims about the hardship of Indian students in the U.S.
Watumull's Advertisement (1987)
An advertisement for Watamull's from the February 17, 1987 issue of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin coinciding with the centennial of the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, the "Year of the Hawaiian" as the advertisement describes it.
Watumull's 100 Years (1914-2014)
The son of a brick contractor in Hyderabad, Sindh, Jhamandas Watumull first migrated to Manila, Philippines after an accident left his father significantly debilitated. Jhamandas stayed with an older brother and worked in Manila's textile mills, before starting a retail business that specialized in imports from the Orient.
Rani Bagai on "Vaishno Das Bagai's Naturalization Certificate"
Part of a video interview of Rani Bagai conducted on June 3, 2013. In this section, Bagai describes some of the items of her grandfather Vaishno Das Bagai left behind after his suicide in 1928, including several letters to his family he had written in addition to the political suicide letter which was published in newspapers in the U.S. and India.
Motee Singh's Arrival Record
Motee "Kid" Singh, a professional boxer, arrives in New York in 1931 on the steamship Munamar and is identified on the passenger manifest as an "East Indian" able to read and write English and "Hindoo." The featherweigh
Rose Su Persaud's Arrival Record
In 1924, a 23-year old widow named Rose Su Persaud arrived at Ellis Island and declared her intention to go live with her sister Agnes Premdas at the Phyllis Wheatley Hotel in Harlem, founded and run by Marcus Garvey’s Pan-Africanist United Negro Improvement Association.