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HindooHistory
@HindooHistory
Chronicling the history of the “Hindoo” in America, primarily through archival newspaper clips. Instagram: @HindooHistory.
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    Nov 16, 2024
    Re-posted from the Newsletter! In the latest #HindooHistory dialogue, I spoke with @PhilipDeslippe, a doctoral candidate studying the early history of yoga in the United States from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Please read and share! #HindooHistory #Yoga
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    Apr 8, 2022
    The Seattle Star, 1913 "200 HINDUS ARRIVE IN SEATTLE" "AND THERE'S NO LAW TO BAR A HUNDRED MILLION MORE" #HindooHistory #HindooPeril
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    Dec 21, 2021
    The Detroit Times, 1910 "HINDUS CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO U.S." "No Effort Made at Frisco to Stop Entry of Undesirables, Although Other Ports Bar Them" "The dumping place for the scum of the orient and India is San Francisco" #HindooHistory
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    May 6, 2023
    The Washington Times, 1929 "Sacred Bull or Sacred Monkey" "You Take Your Choice, in India, and Worship Accordingly" Caption: "HINDU FANATIC PROSTRATES HIMSELF BEFORE A SACRED WHITE BULL" #HindooHistory
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    Jul 16, 2021
    The Morning News, 1896 "HINDOO SERVANTS" "Must be Handled Roughly, as They Don't Appreciate Kindness" #HindooHistory
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    Mar 17, 2021
    The Washington Times, 1908 “MYSTERIOUS YOGA FAITH OF EAST INDIES WHICH HAS ROBBED AN AMERICAN CITIZEN OF A DEVOTED WIFE” #HindooHistory #Yoga
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Los Angeles Herald, 1907 "MOB DRIVES OUT HINDUS" "HUNDREDS BEATEN AND FORCED FROM BELLINGHAM" "Mob for Hours, Assault Mills and Lodgings -- Indians Tramp Toward Protection of Canada" #HindooHistory #BellinghamRiots
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    Jul 9, 2023
    An excerpt from American lexicographer Noah Webster's "History of Animals" regarding the "Hindoo race": "They are an effeminate, cowardly people, and have always been conquered when invaded, by the more hardy natives of the north. They make poor soldiers, but good slaves. Such
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    Jun 30, 2021
    New York Tribune, August 11, 1912 “Oriental ‘Mystics’ Are Gathering in Force for Invasion of America” #HindooHistory
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    Dec 9, 2021
    “Although England has ruled here for more than a century, and the Protestant missionary societies have spent upwards of a hundred million gold dollars in trying to make converts to Christianity, the mass of people still adhere to the ridiculous practices of the ancients”
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    May 5, 2021
    Salt Lake Herald, 1906 “Absurd Religious Practices in India” #HindooHistory #Benares #Varanasi
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    May 18, 2021
    Los Angeles Herald, 1910 “BROWN SWARM” “In one week of February, 327 Hindus arrived in San Francisco. The Hindus in California now number 10,000…benevolent assimilation of the Hindu is impossible. In the first place, they despise white men” #HindooHistory
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    Apr 5, 2021
    The title page of Mabel Potter Daggett’s 1911 essay, “The Heathen Invasion of America” #HindooHistory
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    Apr 27, 2021
    Staunton Spectator, 1838 “THE DYING HINDOO” “There are few things more shocking to European eyes,than the publicity of death bed scenes in India,and the apathetical indifference displayed by the Hindoos while attending the expiring moments of their nearest relatives or friends”
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    Jul 8, 2025
    The San Francisco call, February 01, 1910 Turn Back the Hindu Invasion THE importation of Hindu coolies apparently proceeds in large volume. Every steamer from the orient brings a load of these highly undesirable people, most of whom are quite likely to become a public burden.
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