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Chapter 1: Early South Asian American Immigration (Pre-1923)
Explore this chapter:
• Sick Keesar's Petition to Benjamin Franklin
• Jumping Ship
• Visitors & Travelers
• The Parrot's Beak
• The Bellingham "Anti-Hindu" Riot
• Ghadar Party
• The Komagata Maru
• Sick Keesar's Petition to Benjamin Franklin
• Jumping Ship
• Visitors & Travelers
• The Parrot's Beak
• The Bellingham "Anti-Hindu" Riot
• Ghadar Party
• The Komagata Maru
Sick Keesar's Petition to Benjamin Franklin
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2 | See the image in SAADA's archival collections. | |
9 | "Histories of Indenture" Inset | Learn more about histories of indenture and Guyanese communities descended from Indian indentured laborers in "The Things We Carried" - a digital exhibit created by 2019-20 SAADA Archival Creators Fellow, Gaiutra Bahadur. |
10 | Further Reading | Read more about Sick Keesar in "The Curious Case of Sick Keesar: Tracing the Roots of South Asian Presence in the Early Republic" by Rajender Kaur. |
Jumping Ship
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13 | "Aladdin Ullah" Inset | Read more about "Aladdin Ullah's Dishwasher Dreams". |
14 | See the image at bengaliharlem.com |
Visitors & Travelers
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19 | See the image at vedantasociety.net | |
20 | See the image in SAADA's archival collections. | |
20 | "Dr. Anandibai Joshee" Inset | Discover more about Dr. Anandibai Joshee in SAADA's archival collections. |
21 | "Pandita Ramabai in America" Inset | Discover more about Pandita Ramabai in SAADA's archival collections. |
21 | See the image here. | |
22 | Read more about "Pandita Ramabai in America" and see the image in this TIDES article. | |
22 | "A Note to the Reader About Caste" Inset | Read more about caste in the U.S. in "Survey of Caste in the United States" by Equality Labs |
23 | "Oh Niagara!" Inset | Read more from the TIDES article "Oh Niagara! Lala Lajpat Rai at Niagara Falls in 1905". |
23 | Further Reading | Discover more about South Asian visitors and exchanges to the U.S. in SAADA's archival collections. |
The Parrot's Beak
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27 | Further Reading | Read the rest of Kartar Dhillon's The Parrot's Beak reprinted in this TIDES article. |
The Bellingham &Anti-Hindu& Riot
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31 | See the image in SAADA's archival collections. | |
32 | Discover more about Tuly Singh Johl in the Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive. | |
34 | Further Reading | Read more about the Bellingham Riot in Manan Desai's "A Letter Home from Bellingham" published in TIDES. |
35 | Further Discovery | Discover more about the Bellingham Riot in SAADA's archival collections. |
Ghadar Party
The Komagata Maru
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43 | Read more at canadianart. | |
44 | "The Immigration Act of 1917" Inset | Read more about the Immigration Act of 1917 in Seema Sohi's "From 1917 to 2017" published in TIDES. |
46 | See the image in SAADA's archival collections. |