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Death Certificate for Vaishno Das Bagai
Death certificate for Vaishno Das Bagai, issued on March 16, 1928 in Santa Clara County.

Here's Letter To The World From Suicide
Article titled "Here's Letter To The World From Suicide" from the March 17, 1928 edition of the San Francisco Examiner. The article reports on the suicide of Vaishno Das Bagai, and reprints the letter he left for newspapers.

Portrait of Vaishno Das Bagai
Photograph of Vaishno Das Bagai, circa 1926.

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Photograph of Kala Bagai and three sons
Photograph of Kala Bagai Chandra, and her three sons Madan, Brij, and Ram Bagai (left to right), taken in Chicago in 1933.

Mahesh Chandra
Handwritten note: "Mr. Mahesh Chandra / May 10, 1936"

An Indian Merchant's Suicide in U.S.
Newspaper clipping from the May 22, 1928 issue of The Hindustan Times, featuring an article titled "An Indian Merchant's Suicide in U.S." The article documents the suicide by Vaishno Das Bagai, who ended his life in "patriotic protest against racial discrimination," and includes excerpts from his suicide letter and a letter from Brij Mohan (V. D.

Graduation Diploma for Mahesh Chandra
Diploma of graduation for Masters of Arts degree for Mahesh Chandra from the Leland Stanford Junior University.

"U.C. Hindu Girl Keeps Pledge To Dying Kin"
Oakland Post-Enquirer article from Saturday, January 10, 1925 entitled, “UC Hindu Girl Keeps Pledge to Dying Kin”. The article tells the story of Prabha Chandra, a graduate of University of California, who promised her dying brother she would return to India to teach instead of stay in the US.

Photograph of Kala Bagai
Photograph of Kala Bagai, taken in 1929 at age 36.

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