Ajudhia Persaud

DESCRIPTION
There's a thwarted love story implied in the entry records of Ajudhia Persaud, a student at McGill University in Montreal and a repeat visitor to New York to see his wife Laika. The couple was separated when he was deported in 1935, after his father’s naturalization was revoked in 1935, “due to error.” It’s unclear what this error was, whether it was a case of passing uncovered or whether it was part of the wave of citizenship rescinded after the Supreme Court ruled, in 1923, in the case of Bhagat Singh Thind, that Indians could not claim whiteness and therefore could not become citizens.

THEMES
Visitors & Exchanges

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: 1936
Subject(s): Ajudhia Persaud
Type: Text
Source: Archival Creators Fellowship Program
Location: Rouses Point, New York

PROVENANCE
Collection: Gaiutra Bahadur Fellowship Project
Item History: 2020-10-22 (created); 2024-05-26 (modified)

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