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Private Benefit for India Famine Relief & Misc. Documents
Program for a private benefit for famine relief in India, organized by the American Friends Service Committee. Speeches and performances by Gertrude Nasri, Eric Johnson, Ram Bagai, P.K. Bhattacharya, K. Ray, Millard Sheets, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila Janadas.

"The Knot Was Really Tied"
Newspaper clipping from Daily News with a wedding photograph of Bhupesh Guha and Ananka Rameses. Guha was a prominent Indian dancer in the U.S.

"Nehru's Sister L.A. Visitor"
Newspaper clipping from the February 27, 1947 edition of the Los Angeles Examiner. The clipping features an article about the visit of Krishna Nehru Hutheesing, Prime Minister Nehru's sister, and her husband Raja Hutheesing to L.A.

Misc. Correspondence
A series of four letters between Ram Bagai in Hollywood and Krishna Nehru Hutheesing in Bombay. The two letters to Mrs. Hutheesing are dated September 30, 1951 and December 14, 1950. The letters to Bagai are dated February 22, 1951 and November 27, 1951.

Photographs of Vaishno Das and Kala Bagai Family
Two photographs of Vaishno Das Bagai and Kala Bagai's extended family. The image misspells Bagai's name as "Vashnu Das."

"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.