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May 4 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A comic called "Lady Luck," published in the Evening Star in 1941, featuring a mysterious statute of "The Goddess of the Snaka Shala, from India"

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The comic features a number of mysterious murders in the presence of the strange statue, much to the befuddlement of the police officers investigating the store Image
A visitor arrives from India, the purported owner of the store, to claim his possessions. He too is killed under strange circumstances. Image
They eventually realize that the statue is alive: Image
Turns out the statue is a "hindu girl."

"It's well known how Indian fakirs can sit for hours and hours... a really remarkable performance, Young lady!" Image

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May 3
The Birmingham Age Herald, 1922

"The management of the Jefferson Theatre takes pleasure in informing theatre-goers of Birmingham and adjoining cities that Mr. Walker Whiteside will appear as Gordon Kean's modern mystery play of India, 'THE HINDU'"

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"Miss Amy Leslie, the celebrated dramatic critic of the CHicago Daily News, said: 'The Hindu is worth filling the theatre to see. You will have to go to have as good a time as we did.'"
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May 2
The Washington Times, 1928

"She's a Hindu, Now"

"With all the elaborate ceremonies of the Oriental race, Nancy Ann Miller, Seattle, Wash., girl today became a convert to Hinduism in Bombay, preparatory to her marriage Saturday to the former Maharajah of Indore"

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"15,000 SEE U.S. GIRL SWEAR FEALTY TO HINDOOISM"

"With the crimson mark of her caste upon her forehead, miss Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, Wash., American fiancé of Tukojirao Holkar, former Maharajah of Indore, stood upon the bank of the sacred river Godavri near Nashik Today..."
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Apr 25
Los Angeles Herald, 1906

"'WHITE PERIL' IN WAY OF WEST"

"Bharati Reverses Accepted Theories"

"Says the East Has Long Had a Civilization of Which the Occident Knows Nothing and its Life is a Mystery"

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"Since the publication of the 'Letters of a Chinese Official' some time ago, people have begun to wonder whether the view taken by the author might not have some real foundation"
"The 'Replies' of Mr. Bryan served but little to enlighten the ever-growing question; and now comes Baba Bharati of this city, who is an article in the current issue of the 'Light of India,' not only corroborates the sentiments expressed by the first writer, but adds thereto"
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Apr 22
The Wahpeton Times, 1900

"THE SITUATION IN INDIA"

"In attributing India's famines to overpopulation, the Journal falls into a very common error."

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"The theory that India's famines are due to overpopulation is further discredited by the fact that famines in China, of any great magnitude, are seldom heard of, though China's population is denser than that of India." Image
"The true cause of India's famines must be sought elsewhere than in overpopulation; and it is easy to find it in the creeds and customs of grotesque and diversified heathenism"
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Apr 19
Published by noted atheist Charles Chilton Moore in his paper the Blue Grass Blade, this article is a great example of the ways in which the representation of "India" and the "Hindoo" in early 20C America intersected with domestic sociological and political trends.
Moore was an inveterate critic of the Christian church, and even spent time in prison for sending "obscene literature" through the mail. He described his paper as being “edited by a heathen in the interests of good morals."
The LOC Archive note on the paper notes that the paper "openly supported other controversial causes of the time as well, from women’s suffrage to free trade to 'special National legislation to improve the condition, financial and educational, of Negroes and Indians.'"
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Apr 19
Blue Grass Blade, 1906

"HINDOO DELIVERS HOT ROAST"

"For Christian Missionary Work In India-- Finds More Caste Exclusion in American Than In His Own Country"

"HITS BACK WITH BITTER AND STINGING WIT"

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"It took the naked savages to literally dine off broiled missionary, but the following from Anaconda (Montana) Standard gives an account of a figurative roast reported from Butte. The report, which explains itself, is follows:"
"Pundit Dr. N. Krishna of Bombay gave a lecture at the court house last evening on the subject of political and social conditions in India. Rev. Lewis Duncan introduced the gentleman from India as a citizen from a country that was the opposite of our own"
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