St. Johns Theater & Pub, 8203 N. Ivanhoe St., Portland, OR, 97203
Join us at McMenamin's St. Johns Theater & Pub for a special presentation by author Johanna Ogden. Ogden will be sharing her new book Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River: The Global Fight for Indian Independence and Citizenship with us followed by Q&A.
Oregon is commonly perceived to have little, let alone notable, South Asian history. Yet in the early 1900s Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. Punjabi Rebels of the Columbia River traces the stories of the radical Indian independence organization known as Ghadar and Bhagat Singh Thind's era-defining US Supreme Court citizenship case. Ghadar sought the overthrow of India's British colonizers while Thind utilized sanctioned legal channels to do so. Despite widely differing strategies, both the movement and the man were targeted, often in coordination, by the highest levels of the US and British governments. The empires' united message: India would not be an independent country and Indians could not be citizens.
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