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Fragments from South Asian America — from the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour
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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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Love, Murder, and the Great Hindoo Manhunt of 1913
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