The East Indians

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Ruggiero, Adriane.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2006.
Series:Coming to America (San Diego, Calif.)
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • Punjabi immigrants of the early 1900s / Padma Rangaswamy
  • East Indian immigrants face discrimination in America / Ronald Takaki
  • The race riot against the East Indians of Washington / Joan M. Jensen
  • The Ghadar movement calls for Indians to fight the British / Ved Prakash Vatuk
  • East Indians are declared ineligible for U.S. citizenship / George Sutherland
  • The liberalization of U.S. policies on East Indian immigration and naturalization / Gary R. Hess
  • The first East Indian immigrant to serve in Congress / Dalip Singh Saund
  • East Indian immigration increases due to the 1965 U.S. Immigration Act / David M. Reimers
  • The struggle to succeed in America / S. Mitra Kalita
  • East Indians retain their culinary traditions in New York / Madhulika S. Khandelwal
  • East Indians establish a political identity / Vinay Lal
  • East Indians and the impact of the September 11 terrorist attacks / Lavina Melwani
  • Young East Indians defy parental pressures to conform to parental values / John Blake
  • East Indian youth culture in New York City / Sunaina Marr Maira
  • Many East Indian immigrants are returning to India / Robert Weisman
  • Samina Ali / Samina Ali ; interview by Shauna Singh Baldwin
  • Ismail Merchant / Ismail Merchant
  • Vijay Iyer / Vijay Iyer ; interviewed by Manu Vimalassery
  • Sabeer Bhatia / Stuart Whitmore.