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014 - Kala Bagai
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What was it like for a South Asian woman immigrating to the US in the early 20th century, and how did she build a community over her lifetime? And why name a street in Berkeley after Kala Bagai — especially since she may not have spent much time living there, if she did at all?
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Or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, or RadioPublic.
Learn more about Kala Bagai and her story on the South Asian American Digital Archive website. There you can also find the recording of her oral history, Vaishno Das Bagai’s letter to the San Francisco Examiner, and other archival materials, such as the newspaper clipping below.
You can read Rani Bagai’s letter supporting the Kala Bagai Way campaign on Berkeleyside here:
Opinion: Berkeley might name a street after Kala Bagai. This is her story
Community historians Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee have founded Berkelely South Asian Walking tour with a wonderful mission, ie to bring the South Asi...
Learn more about the Berkeley South Asian Radical History walking tour on their website.
27 episoder
Manage episode 274782635 series 1223979
What was it like for a South Asian woman immigrating to the US in the early 20th century, and how did she build a community over her lifetime? And why name a street in Berkeley after Kala Bagai — especially since she may not have spent much time living there, if she did at all?
Listen:
Or listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, or RadioPublic.
Learn more about Kala Bagai and her story on the South Asian American Digital Archive website. There you can also find the recording of her oral history, Vaishno Das Bagai’s letter to the San Francisco Examiner, and other archival materials, such as the newspaper clipping below.
You can read Rani Bagai’s letter supporting the Kala Bagai Way campaign on Berkeleyside here:
Opinion: Berkeley might name a street after Kala Bagai. This is her story
Community historians Barnali Ghosh and Anirvan Chatterjee have founded Berkelely South Asian Walking tour with a wonderful mission, ie to bring the South Asi...
Learn more about the Berkeley South Asian Radical History walking tour on their website.
27 episoder
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