Chronicling the history of the “Hindoo” in America, primarily through archival newspaper clips. Instagram: @HindooHistory.
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"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."
"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 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"
"Religions is the Supreme Fact of Indian life-- if we may call religion what has been more properly defined as 'a sacred disease'"
"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" 
"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 Carl Hagenbeck East India Perahera Introducing for the first time in America over one-hundred people, men, women, and children from far away India." 
"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"
"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." 
"Krishna continued: 'Show me a country where missionaries have been that is prosperous. It does not exist. There were no famines nor plagues in India before the English invasion'"
"Edmund Russell, an Indian Traveler and Student, Describes 'Land of the Lotus' and its Inhabitants-- Severely Scores Kipling and His Work-- Calls the Realist 'Incarnation of Journalistic Impudence'" 
"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..."
"'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.""
"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" 
"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" 
"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" 
"'Unveiled Hinduism' was the subject of a spiritual address by the Rev. Jefferson E. Scott before the members of the Methodist Ministers' Association yesterday morning at Epworth Hall"
"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"
"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"
