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Kokila Bahadur Jersey City Medical Center Certificate
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.

Kokila Bahadur in Sari
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.

Cover of a 1965 issue of True Detective
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.

Days of the Sahib Poet Bio
Here, a biography of Rajkumari Singh is accompanied by a portrait by pen done by her daughter Pritha Singh.

The second page of Rajkumari Singh's biography includes the initials R.M., which could stand for Guyanese short story writer Rooplall Monar, who was part of her artistic collective The Messenger Group.

Coolie Art Forms of Guyana Front and Interior Panels
Rajkumari Singh produced an evening of dance, song, poetry, plays and art to celebrate the reinvented cultural traditions of indentured Indians in Guyana. "Coolie Art Forms of Guyana" included a reading of her poem "Per Ajie." The program contained an ad from rum-maker D'Aguiar's, which promises a "bellyful of happiness."

Kokila Bahadur Guyana Passport
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.

Salima and Aliyah Khan Oral History Interview
Salima Khan, a high school teacher and college adjunct lecturer in Queens, converses with her daughter Aliyah, an associate professor of English Literature at the University of Michigan and author of Far From Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean.

Laparkan Business Card
The company Laparkan, employer of Aliyah's father, shipped the many things --- from dolls to books --- that the Khans carried from Guyana to the United States in 1992.

Islamic Prayer Pamphlet Cover
The Khan family carried this prayer guidebook printed by the Ahmadiyya Anjuman, the reformist movement led in Guyana by Aliyah's grandfather, to the United States.

Religion, A Force for Unity
This clip of a newspaper article brought by the Khan family shows Aliyah's grandfather Mohamed Rasheed greeting Guyanese President Desmond Hoyte at the opening of the Masjid Dar Salaam, headquarters for Guyana's Ahmadiyya Anjuman.

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