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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.

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.

Sheorani Kilawan at Her Wedding in Guyana
This photograph was taken during Sheorani's wedding ceremony in her home in Albion, Guyana in 1986.

Sheorani Kilawan Arrives as a New Bride in America
This photograph was taken in Queens on Jan. 23, 1988, soon after Sheorani Kilawan's arrival in the United States.

Sheorani Kilawan's Wedding Ceremony
This photograph was taken during Sheorani's wedding ceremony in her home in Albion, Guyana in 1986.

Samalinga Website
Samalinga was a site "devoted to writings by South Asians on South Asian lesbi-gay themes," collected from posts to the Khush LGBTQ South Asian listserve. The site was accessible at http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/5838 and was last updated on February 16, 1997.

Guyana Exercise Book Cover with Burnham's Image
This notebook contains diagrams of mitochondrial DNA by Mahendra Bahadur when he was a student at the University of Guyana in the late 1970s.

A heavy wooden vase, carried
This photograph was taken in Cumberland Village in Guyana the year before Gaiutra Bahadur's family left for America. Here, the archival creators fellow is sitting in the living room of the Bahadur family home, built by her grandfather born on a ship from India to Guyana a mile from the plantation where he worked as a sugar cane cutter.

Class Update with Letter from Kamala (Cornelius) Asirvatham
This update on the Class of 1918 includes a letter from Kamala (Cornelius) Asirvatham describing her stay in the United States and her success in fundraising for the "Kumarappa Memorial Fund," which supported a hospital ward in a small village near Madras in memory of J. C. Kumarappa. The letter also describes Ms.

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