"I.O.O.F. LOST! BROWN WHITES?"

"Hindoo Applicant Drags History to Prove Eligibility to Order"

"HIS SKIN IS OF SWARTHY HUE"

#HindooHistory "The Independent Order of Odd Fellows confronts a problem in ethnology that has driven the officers of the Supreme lodge of Illinois almost. to distraction."

The San Francisco Call, 1900

"STARVING HINDOOS HOARD GOLD"

"The present struggle in South Africa has done much to distract attention from the fearful ravages of the Indian famine"

#HindooHistory "There is, however, one point in connection with this periodic scourge which Britishers would do well to bear in mind, says a prominent member of the Indian Civil Service in Pearson's Weekly"

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 "The British discuss giving 'dominion status' to India. This, nominally, would put India in the position of Canada or Australia as a self-governing part of the British Empire"

The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., 1911

"HINDUISM: THE SUPREME FACT OF INDIA"

"If it were any other country but India, I might write last of the religion the people profess, but since it is India, it is the first thing to be considered"

#HindooHistory "Religions is the Supreme Fact of Indian life-- if we may call religion what has been more properly defined as 'a sacred disease'"

El Paso Herald, 1920

"This Man's Shadow Believed to Put Curse On Person Upon Whom It Falls"

"Caste Barriers Being Destroyed by Church Work in India, Survey Indicates"

#HindooHistory "If a member of a higher caste in Southern India passes within 65 feet of a Pariah, or member of one of the lowest castes, he believes himself defiled"

The Delta Independent, 1908

"IDOLS OF THE HINDOOS"

"There Are Hundreds of Millions of Them in India"

"THE FAME OF JUGGERNAUT"

"This Idol Has Been Worshiped About Two Thousand Years, and His National Temple is on the Sands of Puri-- The Three Monster Cars"

#HindooHistory "If I were asked to describe India the first remark that would spring from my lips would be, 'It is a land of idols.' It would be impossible to compute the number of idols that there must be at the present time in India."

The St. Mary Banner, 1906

"The Carl Hagenbeck Trained Animal Shows"

"The Most Gigantic Enterprise Ever Organized"

"Educational and Ethnological"

#HindooHistory "The Carl Hagenbeck East India Perahera Introducing for the first time in America over one-hundred people, men, women, and children from far away India."

Western Kansasn World, 1888

"The Religion of the Hindoo"

"Some people, indeed most people, think of the population of India as barbarous and heathenish. It is a great mistake, and many missionaries wish they were, so hard is it to make impressions on them"

#HindooHistory "They are skilled metaphysicians and accomplished logicians. Why, the theories of Huxley and Darwin were known and tried by Hindoo masters 2,000 years ago and rejected"

While I agree that historical events like the #BellinghamRiots should not be contorted to fit contemporary political narratives, we should also be wary of another error: the anachronistic imposition of labels that don't reflect the social and cultural climate at the time. 1/n

https://twitter.com/AudreyTruschke/status/1625619732320624643

It is true that the majority of the victims in the riots were Punjabi Sikhs, and it is also true that they were identified as "hindoo" by the average American at the time. How do we reconcile this? Audrey's answer seems to be that despite the broad application of "hindoo" 2/n

Imperial Valley Press, 1936

"Hindu Fakirs Baffle Science"

"More than 5,000,000 Fakirs Roam Over India-- Is Their Mystic Power A Religion or A Racket?"

#HindooHistory "India is the strangest, most colorful, and weirdly mysterious land under the sun. It at once fascinates and repulses; thrills and appalls; delights and saddens."

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 "Six badly beaten Hindus are in the hospital. 400 frightened and half naked Sikhs are in the jail and corridors of the city hall under guard, and somewhere between Bellingham and British Columbia line are 750 natives of India, beaten, hungry, and half clothed..."

Hawaiian Star, 1907

"THE GOVERNOR APPROVES RIOTS"

"SASYS BELLINGHAM PEOPLE TOOK BEST MEANS OF SETTLING HINDOO QUESTION"

#HindooHistory #BellinghamRiots "'The state of Washington will not be a dumping ground of the Orient. The white laborers of Bellingham have long felt the necessity of taking some drastic action against the Hindoo competitor in the labor market and I am not surprised that the recent outbreak occurred.""

Detroit Times, 1942

"5 RELAXERS"

"These Old Yoga Exercises Look Hard But They're Really Simple-- Try 'Em (If Your Doctor Doesn't Object) and Watch Your Cheeks Bloom with Color, Feel Your Spine and Muscles Limber Up and Those Jittery Nerves Just Fade Away"

#HindooHistory #Yoga "Worried about the war? Tense from taxes? Got a double case of the jitters and screaming willies? Don't go nueces-- as one says South of the Rio Grande (It really means nuts to you.) Take a tip from Betty Atkinson who has a bag of tricks a thousand years old"

The Times-Dispatch, 1910

"AWAKENING OF THE HINDUS-- HOW MODERN CIVILIZATION AFFECTS THEIR CASTES AND RELIGION -- STRANGE GODS AND HEATHEN DEVILS"

#HindooHistory #FrankCarpenter "In the holy city of Benares, on the banks of old Mother Ganges, where I can hear the splashing of the pilgrims as they wash off their sins, I write of the Hindu religion"

Albuquerque Evening Citizen, 1907

"HINDUS SAID TO BE MENACE TO AMERICAN PEACE AND HEALTH"

"Recent Outbreaks Cause an Investigation Into Life and Habits of Orientals in Northwest States"

#HindooHistory #HindooPeril "The outbreak against Hindu coolies at Bellingham, Wash. is only a forerunner of an agitation against another Asiatic peril which has been making itself felt more and more on the Pacific coast"

An editorial from the San Francisco Call, 1910

"Hindu Immigration Must Stop"

"The present rate of importation of Hindu laborers runs about 300 a month and is increasing..."

#HindooHistory "If not checked the influx will exceed 5,000 a year, and these figures are moderate if we consider the virtually unlimited cooly population from which the supples are drawn and the pernicious activity of the steamship companies engaged in this profitable trade"

Elmore County Republican, 1913

"CURSE OF INDIA GETS FOOTHOLD IN AMERICA"

"Reverend Trawin of Baptist Church Issues a Stern Warning to Women of Country"

#HindooHistory "Rev. C. L. Trawin, pastor of the Baptist church, preached a strong sermon Sunday, warning the women of the United States against the religions brought to the country by Yogis and Swamis from India under the guise of philosophy, reincarnation, and the so-called higher life"

Excerpts from @KGinLum’s new book, “Heathen,” a critical addition to the #HindooHistory reading list, along with @MichaelJAltman’s “Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu.” Will add to this thread as I go through the book! “The sustained rise in the term’s use reflects the deliberate fashioning of the heathen world as a cohesive category in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.”

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"

#HindooHistory 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

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'"

#HindooHistory "Mr. Whiteside will portray the fascinating character of Prince Tarmar in whose gorgeous palace in India the story of 'The Hindu' is told."

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"

#HindooHistory "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..."