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United States. Known for. Immigrant activism. Spouses. Vaishno Das Bagai. Mahesh Chandra. Kala Bagai (later Kala Bagai Chandra; 1893-1983) [1][2] was a South Asian American immigrant and community activist. [3] The Smithsonian described her as "a life-long advocate for immigrants and a mother figure among South Asian communities in California."
On December 11, 2013, Devyani Khobragade, then the Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of India in New York City, was charged by U.S. authorities with committing visa fraud and providing false statements in order to gain entry to the United States for Sangeeta Richard, [1] a woman of Indian nationality, for employment as a domestic worker for Khobragade in New York. [2]
Indo-Canadians or Indian Canadians, are Canadians who have ancestry from India. The term East Indian is sometimes used to avoid confusion with the Indigenous peoples of Canada. Categorically, Indo-Canadians comprise a subgroup of South Asian Canadians which is a further subgroup of Asian Canadians. According to Statistics Canada, Indians are ...
Vice President Harris, the daughter of an Indian immigrant mother and a Jamaican immigrant father, has leaned into that heritage to help energize voters. Harris will need to assemble a broad ...
Indo-Guyanese or Indian-Guyanese, are Guyanese nationals of Indian origin who trace their ancestry to India and the wider subcontinent. They are the descendants of indentured servants and settlers who migrated from India beginning in 1838, and continuing during the British Raj. The vast majority of indentured labourers in Guyana came from North ...
Currently, there are around 8,000 to 11,684 Afghan refugees in India, most of whom are Muslims and Sikhs. [37][38] The Indian government has allowed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in India to operate a programme for them. [39] In 2015, the Indian government granted citizenship to 4,300 Hindu and Sikh refugees.
The peopling of India refers to the migration of Homo sapiens into the Indian subcontinent. Anatomically modern humans settled India in multiple waves of early migrations, over tens of millennia. [1] The first migrants came with the Coastal Migration / Southern Dispersal 65,000 years ago, whereafter complex migrations within South and Southeast ...
The Indo-Aryan migrations[ note 1 ] were the migrations into the Indian subcontinent of Indo-Aryan peoples, an ethnolinguistic group that spoke Indo-Aryan languages. These are the predominant languages of today's Bangladesh, Maldives, Nepal, North India, Eastern Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Indo-Aryan migration into the region, from Central Asia ...