Metadata Index

Family's Religion

Arya Samaj Hinduism Hinduism, Shaivism Hindusim, Vaishnavism Islam Jainism Pushtimargiya Sunni Islam Zoroastrianism

Languages Spoken

Bengali Bhojpuri Chinese English Fijian Gujarati Gurmukhi Hindi Hyderbadi Japanese Kannada Malayalam Marathi Parsi Persian Punjabi Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Spanish Tamil Telugu Urdu

Place of Birth or Hometown

Agra, India Ahmedabad, India Allahabad (Prayagraj), India Ankleshwar, India Bangalore, India Bhandu, India Bombay (Mumbai), India Burdwan, India Calcutta, India Dehradun, India Dhaka, Benjal Province, Britsh India Fiji Ganj Dundwara, India Guntur, India Habbaniyah, Iraq Hyderabad, India Hyderabad, Sindh, British India Kaithal, India Kanpur, India Karimnagar, India Kavutaram, India Kodinar, India Laksmeshwar, India Madras (Chennai), India Morbi, India Nadiad, India New Delhi, India Pune, India Rajasthan, India Shimla, India Surat, India Tenali, India Thotlavalluru, India Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), India Tumkur, India Ujjain, India Vadodara (Baroda), India West Bengal, India

Port of entry

Chicago, IL Honolulu, HI New York, NY Seattle, WA

Residence in United States other than Chicago

Boston, MA Buffalo, NY Cleveland, OH Davis, CA Detroit, MI Eugene, OR Gary, IN Lawrence, KS Long Island, NY Los Angeles, CA New Jersey New York, NY Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh, PA Poughkeepsie, NY Providence, RI San Francisco, CA State College, PA Syracuse, NY Tacoma, WA Tuscon, AZ Urbana, IL Washington, DC

Tags

discrimination politics 1947 Partition of India American dream Bollywood British Cold War Cook County Hospital Devon Avenue Gandhi Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago Indian Army Islam Nehru Sunni University of Chicago Vietnam War Westernization accent arranged marriage bindi chain migration culture shock difficulty of returning discrimination engineer entrepeneur exchange rate farming finding Indian food finding community gender politics hard work homesick interfaith isolation joint family learning English learning to cook long-distance communication love marriage mixed-race children nonviolence not planning to stay pioneer recession sari servants small town travel by ship women's issues