Interview with Professor Anand Yang

DESCRIPTION
Prof. Anand Yang teaches South Asian and World History at the University of Washington in Seattle where he has a joint appointment in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and served as director between 2002 and 2010. He has an extensive publishing record on agrarian relations, criminal justice systems, commerce and culture in colonial India, and is working on a memoir of his life in Delhi in the 1960s. Born and raised in India at Santiniketan in Bengal, he identifies as Indian Chinese and an immigrant to the U.S. having arrived here in 1966 to attend Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. This oral history project was conceived and conducted by Dr. Monica Ghosh, South Asia Studies Librarian at the University Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM), whose interest in the records and representation of the South Asian Chinese community -- in South Asia (primarily in Kolkata and later in other major cities) and the U.S. -- is longstanding. Ghosh invited her colleagues at UHM, Dongyun Ni (Chinese Studies Librarian) and Monisha Das Gupta (Ethnic Studies Department Faculty) to bring their perspectives to the conversation as co-interviewers. The interview serves as an important video record and digital archive for this remarkable Indian ethnic minority.

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: November 2020
Subject(s): Anand Yang
Type: Oral History
Language: English
Creator: Monica Ghosh
Contributor: Dongyun Ni, Monisha Das Gupta

PROVENANCE
Donor: Monica Ghosh
Item History: 2021-11-03 (created); 2021-11-08 (modified)

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