September 16, 1906
– An article in the Puget
Sound American
describes recent “Hindu”
migration to Bellingham,
Washington.
The article is entitled
“Have We a Dusky Peril?”
and subtitled “Hindu
Hordes Invading the
State.”...
September 20, 1949
– An official
announcement is made stating that
Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime
minister, will visit California and the
West Coast for the first time.
He arrived...
September 1920
– The
Independent Hindustan, the
official Hindustan Gadar
Party publication, is first published.
In 1923 it was renamed
The United States of India.
The opening 1920 editorial
expressed the publication’s
aims:...
(Pictured: Dr. Jatindra Mohan Bose, who dreamt of drawing India nearer to the US through commerce. Sayyid Mohamad Jaffer, a medical student who intended...
August 25, 1950 – A flyer in Los Angeles advertises the
availability of “Beginners and Advance Classes in Hindu
Dances.” The instructor, named Satya, offers to...
First Indian woman to receive her
degree in medicine in the United States.
June 18, 1883 – A letter from Anandibai
Joshee, the first Indian woman to...
