Secret Desi History
Fragments from South Asian America — from the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
- By Anirvan Chatterjee
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly five posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
In 1880s Berkeley, a turbaned figure known only as “Old James” wandered alone through the hills, his turban and trance-like manner catching the attention of locals. Described in a newspaper as “a sort of mystic,” …
An 1851 San Francisco paper described a city of immigrants… I found a lovely line in an 1851 San Francisco newspaper that celebrates the diversity of Gold Rush San Francisco—a boom town whose residents included …
In 1916, a new establishment opened its doors at 2139 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, California. Named Bagai’s India Arts and Curios, it was founded by Vaishno Das Bagai, an early South Asian immigrant to …