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Outcast: The Women That Left India For the New World In The Nineteenth Century

Nearly a quarter million women left India between 1838 to 1917 as indentured laborers. They went from India to Mauritius, Fiji, Trinidad…

Nov 13, 2020

Outcast: The Women That Left India For the New World In The Nineteenth Century

Nov 13, 2020

First East Indian Immigrants and U.S. Citizenship based on Whiteness

The first East Indian Hindu to acquire American citizenship obtained it by arguing that he was Caucasian or a “free white.”

Oct 20, 2020

Oct 20, 2020

UNSUNG HEROES: UNTOLD SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT STORIES FROM EARLY AMERICA

Early East Indian migration to colonial America, during the founding of the United States and the American Civil War.

Sep 23, 2020

UNSUNG HEROES: UNTOLD SOUTH ASIAN IMMIGRANT STORIES FROM EARLY AMERICA

Sep 23, 2020

Shivani

Shivani

Is a writer, whose work focuses on immigrant stories and histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from India and the South Asian subcontinent.

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