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082 _a954 KUM-A
100 _aKumar, Anuradha
245 _aOne man, many lives :
_bBhagwan Singh and the early south asians in America /
_cAnuradha Kumar
260 _aLondon
_bSimon & Schuster
_c2022
300 _a249 p.
365 _aINR
_b799.00
500 _aTwo men, near-identical names, and their intertwined lives. On one side is Bhagwan Singh, an itinerant religious preacher, a rebel on the run, poet, writer, and even a self-help guru. On the other is Bhogwan Singh, turban-wrapper, occasional actor, and one of the first Indians in Hollywood. When one appears on historical records, the other goes off the radar. This is a story of their journeys, intersecting, meshed, and melded mysteriously with each other. Anuradha Kumar plays armchair detective as she courses through books, newspapers, pamphlets and films to uncover the trajectories of these two lives and the times they inhabited. As much as it is about Bhagwan and Bhogwan Singh, this book tells the larger and more remarkable story of how the first South Asians adapted, adjusted and remade themselves to a life in the New World.
650 _aIntertwined lives
650 _aBhagwan Singh
650 _aReligious preacher
650 _aHistorical records
650 _aTrajectories
650 _aBhogwan Singh
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