Kala Bagai, the Glossary
Kala Bagai (later Kala Bagai Chandra; 1893-1983)National Archives at Riverside; Riverside, California; NAI Number: 594890; Record Group Title: 21; Record Group Number: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685-2009; Petitions, 1949-1950 (Box 0427); was a South Asian American immigrant and community activist.[1]
Table of Contents
48 relations: Activism, Amritsar, Anandi Gopal Joshi, Angel Island Immigration Station, Berkeley, California, Berkeleyside, British Raj, California, Erika Lee, Ghadar Movement, Illustrated Daily News, Immigration, Indian independence movement, Kartar Dhillon, KQED Inc., Los Angeles, Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles Times, Luce–Celler Act, Minneapolis, Nose-jewel, Panama–Pacific International Exposition, Pandita Ramabai, Partition of India, Peshawar, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Racial classification of Indian Americans, San Francisco, San Francisco Examiner, Shattuck Avenue, Sikhs, Simon & Schuster, Smithsonian Institution, South Asian American Digital Archive, South Asian Americans, Southern California, Stanford University, The Daily Californian, The New Yorker, The San Francisco Call, The Times of India, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), United States, United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Southern California.
- Immigrant rights activists
Activism
Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.
Amritsar
Amritsar (ISO: Amr̥tasara), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as Ambarsar, is the second-largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana.
Anandi Gopal Joshi
Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi (31 March 1865 – 26 February 1887) was the first Indian female doctor of western medicine.
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Angel Island Immigration Station
Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910, to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated.
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Berkeley, California
Berkeley is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.
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Berkeleyside
Berkeleyside is a digital newspaper founded in 2009.
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British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
Erika Lee
Erika Lee is the inaugural Bae Family Professor of History at Harvard University, a position she began in July 2023.
Ghadar Movement
The Ghadar Movement or Ghadar Party was an early 20th-century, international political movement founded by expatriate Indians to overthrow British rule in India.
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Illustrated Daily News
The Daily News (originally the Illustrated Daily News) was a newspaper published in Los Angeles from 1923 to 1954.
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Immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not usual residents or where they do not possess nationality in order to settle as permanent residents.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Kartar Dhillon
Kartar Kaur Dhillon (ਕਰਤਾਰ ਕੌਰ ਢਿੱਲੋਂ) was a Punjabi Sikh American political activist and writer from California. Kala Bagai and Kartar Dhillon are American people of Indian descent and American people of Punjabi descent.
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KQED Inc.
KQED Inc. is a non-profit public media outlet based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, which operates the radio station KQED-FM and the television stations KQED/KQET and KQEH.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
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Los Angeles Herald
The Los Angeles Herald or the Evening Herald was a newspaper published in Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Luce–Celler Act
The Luce–Celler Act of 1946, Pub.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
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Nose-jewel
These ornaments are attached through a piercing in the nostril.
Panama–Pacific International Exposition
The Panama–Pacific International Exposition was a world's fair held in San Francisco, California, United States, from February 20 to December 4, 1915.
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Pandita Ramabai
Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922) was an Indian social reformer and Christian missionary.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
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Peshawar
Peshawar (پېښور; پشور;; پشاور) is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district population of over 4.7 million in the 2023 census.
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Racial classification of Indian Americans
The racial classification of Indian Americans has varied over the years and across institutions.
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San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California.
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San Francisco Examiner
The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.
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Shattuck Avenue
Shattuck Avenue is a major city street running north–south through Berkeley and Oakland, California.
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Sikhs
Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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South Asian American Digital Archive
SAADA (South Asian American Digital Archive) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that preserves and shares stories and materials associated with the history of South Asian Americans.
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South Asian Americans
South Asian Americans are Americans of South Asian ancestry.
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Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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The Daily Californian
The Daily Californian (Daily Cal) is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley, campus and its surrounding community.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The San Francisco Call
The San Francisco Call (Post) was a newspaper that served San Francisco, California.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, 261 U.S. 204 (1923), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States decided that Bhagat Singh Thind, an Indian Sikh man who identified himself as an Aryan, was ineligible for naturalized citizenship in the United States.
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University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.
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University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, Southern Cal) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.
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See also
Immigrant rights activists
- Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah
- Abolish ICE
- Alex Nowrasteh
- Alida Garcia
- Aron Grünhut
- Berhan Ahmed
- Cédric Wermuth
- Carmelita Torres
- Chiara Lauvergnac
- Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Evelyn Valdez-Ward
- Gisele Barreto Fetterman
- Greisa Martínez Rosas
- Helen Kimble
- Herman Bernstein
- Iasonas Apostolopoulos
- Jake Brewer
- Javier Zamora
- Jennicet Gutiérrez
- Jose Antonio Vargas
- Julio Salgado
- Kaji Douša
- Kala Bagai
- Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
- Marie Schmolka
- Marielena Hincapié
- Mei Lum
- Mussie Zerai
- Naya Rivera
- Nestor Dmytriw
- Occupy ICE
- Paulette Wilson
- Prerna Lal
- Rodrigo P. Pimentel
- Saïd Bouziri
- Sergio C. Garcia
- Sophie Cruz
- Sue Clayton
- Teepoo Hall
- Therese Patricia Okoumou
- Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
- Yosimar Reyes
- Young Shin
- Zaynab Abdi
- Zoe Gardner (migration expert)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_Bagai
Also known as Kala Bagai Chandra.