The first significant wave of South Asians on the West Coast of the US were Punjabi men, primarily Sikh (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Americans)
Some of those histories are well recorded: Stockton Gurdwara, railroads, Punjabi-Mexican marriages, Bellingham Riot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Americans
I wanted to do some #DigitalHumanities analysis, so I created a cleaned-up list of every person with the last name "Singh" in the 1940 US Census.
I made the dataset public:
https://github.com/anirvan/1940-singh-census/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singh
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