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Fragments from South Asian America, via the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
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A Tamil sailor (and pirate?) in Gold Rush San Francisco
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The Strangest Christmas Party
A Sikh American Christmas story from 1911
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The 1940 Singh Census, and the attack on Indian immigrants
A new history dataset shows the impact of…
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The Oriental Students Association of 1907 — a new Asian American origin story?
Students from India…
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A Rajasthani servant in 1910s Berkeley
Uncovering Natio’s journey from India to California
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How did South Asian Americans respond to 9/11?
I discovered these original emails from September 2001
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Berkeley’s first Desi fortune teller was weirder than you think
Boor Singh took on cops, dog breeders…
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The first South Asian to die at San Quentin Prison?
Traveling preacher Babu Bheem Roy committed a…
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A lonely South Asian in 1850 San Francisco
Was he the first South Asian in Northern California?
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3 East Indians seeking work in 1900s San Francisco
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