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Tejinder Singh Sibia, historian is dead

Sunday, March 9th @ 1:40 AMpost viewed 85 times

Indian-American historian Ted is dead
March 9th, 2008, thaindian
Pioneer Indian-American historian Tejinder Singh Sibia, who documented the arrival of early Indian migrants to Canada and the US and their struggles, died here at the weekend following a brief illness. He was 70. Popularly known as Ted, he was the first Indian-American to document the history of the Gadar movement in California, the Komagata Maru and early Indian pioneers in America.

After his retirement as a librarian from the University of California at Davis, he devoted his time to chronicling the history of Gadar leaders and early Indian Sikh pioneers through his web site www.sikhpioneers.com. It became a rich reference material for research on the Indian diaspora....Read More...


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