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"August Fifteenth -- Independence Or Partition Day?"
Paper written by Professor Taraknath Das of Columbia University and printed by America India Feature and News Service on August 11, 1950. Professor Das opinions that August 15, 1947 should not be celebrated as Independence Day for India but rather as a mournful ‘Partition Day’.

Letter from Taraknath Das to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee
Letter dated September 12, 1944 from Taraknath Das, Ph.D., Department of History at the College of the City of New York, to U.S. Senate Immigration Committee. Das writes in support of the naturalization of Indians who reside in the US. Das wrote that he obtained American citizenship in 1914 and believes the current American immigration laws are discriminatory.

Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon, informing Channon that Das has decided to solicit “all patriotic Indians” to contribute at least one day’s income to the Taraknath Das Foundation, through which he intends to design a program for India’s “cooperation with the rest of the world.”

Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon, thanking Channon for a letter about establishing an annual Dr. Syud Hossain memorial lecture at the University of Southern California.

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