Secret Desi History
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Fragments from South Asian America — from the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
- By Anirvan Chatterjee
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly four posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
Year starting | Posts |
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2018 | 3 |
2019 | 5 |
2020 | 0 |
2021 | 4 |
2022 | 8 |
2023 | 2 |
2024 | 2 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
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 …
The story of Samuel Variapa, the “Hindoo centenarian of North Beach”If South Asians are included in California history textbooks, their stories typically begin in 1965, or sometimes with Punjabi immigrants of the 1900s. While older …