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Swami Abhedananda, "India and Her People" (1906)
Published by the Vedanta Society in New York, India and Her People (1906) by Swami Abhedananda featured six of the author's lectures delivered before the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on or around 1906.

Photograph of Swami Abhedananda
Portrait of Swami Abhedananda from India and Her People (1906), published by the Vedanta Society, New York.

A Brief Account of a Voyage to England and America
A Brief Account of a Voyage to England and America by Ishuree Dass was published in 1851 by the Presbyterian Mission Press in Allahabad. As described in the preface, Dass was from Futtehguhr in the Upper Provinces, and was raised under the care of the missionary H.R. Wilson after losing his parents in early childhood. Dass traveled to England and the U.S.

Pandita Ramabai, The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888)
Originally published in Marathi, The High-Caste Hindu Woman by Pandita Ramabai (alternatively spelled Pundita Ramabai) was translated into English for this 1888 edition. Ramabai was born in 1859 in Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family.

Pundita Ramabai Sarasvati
Image of Pandita Ramabai from her book The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888).

Anandabai Joshee
Image of Anandabai Joshee, known as the first Hindu woman to receive a Degree of Doctor of Medicine in any country, from Pandita Rambai's The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888).

Jogesh Chander Misrow, "Usha Songita: Songs of the Dawn" (1919)
Published in Chicago, Usha Songita: Songs of the Dawn (1919) is a collection of poetry written by Jogesh Chander Misrow, a Stanford and University of Washington graduate who served as an interpreter for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The poetry includes an introduction by Julian B. Arnold, a lecturer and entertainer more famously known as the son of Sir Edwin Arnold.

Clementina Butler, "Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati" (1922)
Clementina Butler's biography of Pandita Ramabai was first published in 1922. Ramabai was a social reformer and Christian convert, who traveled to England and the U.S., where she published a travelogue and various critiques of caste and gender divisions in Hindu society.

Mary Bamford, "Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West" (1917)
Published in 1917, Angel Island: The Ellis Island of the West was written by Mary Bamford a missionary visitor to the Angel Island station.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
Bhagwan Singh Gyanee, president of the Indian revolutionary Ghadar party at the American Federation of Labor building, Washington, D.C.

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