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Invitation to Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the India League of America
Invitation to the Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the India League of America dated January 6, 1948. The guest speakers list includes Henry F. Grady, U.S. Ambassador to India; Pearl S. Buck, Author and Nobel Prize Winner; Roger N. Baldwin, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union; J.J. Singh, President of the India League of America; and Hemendra K.

Text of Speech Delivered by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Text of speech delivered by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, leader of the Indian Delegation, at the General Assembly of the United Nations on October 25, 1946. Pandit appeals to the U.N. to support the cause for Indian independence and freedom from imperialism in all its forms.

Letter from V.K. Seth to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from V.K. Seth to Godha Ram Channon dated August 23, 1981. Seth apologizes for not seeing Channon during his visit to India and asks him to return again. He also sends his condolences for the passing of Channon’s wife and father-in-law.

Letter from Taraknath Das to G.J. Watumull
Letter from Taraknath Das to G.J. Watumull dated February 25, 1944. Das informs Watumull of a bill proposed by Senator William Langer to grant citizenship to Indians residing in the U.S. The bill, he writes, was introduced on December 15, 1943, but Das did not learn of it until February 1944, when Senator Langer sent him a copy of the proposed bill directly.

Letter from G.J. Watumull to Senator William Langer
Letter from G.J. Watumull to Senator William Langer dated February 21, 1944. Watumull congratulates Langer on his proposed bill to grant citizenship to Indians residing in the U.S. and requests he visit Los Angeles to meet with representatives of the Indian community there personally.

Letter from Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Godha Ram Channon dated January 20, 1932 inviting members of the Indian American community to a dinner in honor of India’s Independence Day, January 26, 1932, "which anniversary will become one of fact when the cause of righteousness and humanity is triumphant."

"Ripley's Believe It or Not"
Newspaper clipping of an ad for "Ripley's Believe It or Not,” purporting to show the “mathematics of war” with a timeline showing the lengths of various wars. These include World War I, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Spanish Civil War, and the “next war” beginning in 1939.

Golden World Colony Main Gate

Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine

Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Gobind Behari Lal to Godha Ram Channon dated June 5, 1951. Lal recounts two meetings with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit in Washington and laments that the Indian government does nothing to support or honor the role of the Indian American community in the Freedom movement.

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