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Premala Shahane playing sitar
Three-quarter length portrait of Premala Shahane playing a sitar and looking down, sitting in front of a building on the University of Chicago campus, located in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Premala Shahane playing sitar
Portrait of Premla Shahane playing a sitar and looking down and to her left, sitting in front of a building on the University of Chicago campus, located in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois.

Bhangra team formed by students at Cleveland State University
A photograph taken during the summer of 1976 of a bhangra team formed by students at Cleveland State University and local high school students to perform during American bicentennial celebrations in the tour of cities in the Midwest. The team performed that summer in Kentucky, Ohio and perhaps other nearby states.

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

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.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh Gyanee in Yokohama, Japan
Photograph of Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee taken in Yokohama, Japan. In November 1913, Bhagwan Singh was deported from Canada and being returned to India. He escaped the ship when it was docked in Japan. In this studio photograph of Bhagwan Singh, he poses with a sword and gun to indicate that freedom for India from the British could only be achieved through armed revolution.

Photograph of Bhagwan Singh's father
A photograph taken in Malaysia in the early 1900s of Bhagwan Singh's father, Sarmukh Singh (center). To Sarmukh Singh's right is his relative, Mehar Singh, and to his left is his friend.

Photograph of Bhai Bhagwan Singh Gyanee
A photograph taken of Bhai Bhagwan Singh around the time of his arrest in San Francisco in connection with the Hindu-German Conspiracy of 1917.