Talk:Turban Tide and Hindoo Invasion

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Just to address remarks made by those for whom this article isn't stating obvious facts:

 http://us.rediff.com/news/1999/oct/13us2.htm
 http://www.empireclubfoundation.com/details.asp?SpeechID=2884&FT=yes
 http://www.ablongman.com/samplechapter/0205457630.pdf
 http://www.ailf.org/ipc/barredzoneprint.asp

And a much larger corpus of sources are easily available through google via "Turban Tide" or "Hindoo Invasion" search phrases. From the contents of ailf.org's barredzoneprint.asp:

"During the same period, Asian Indians, particularly Sikhs from the Punjabi region who were originally brought by the British to work the Canadian-Pacific railroads, began to move south into the U.S. Pacific Northwest and California as farm workers. {3} In response, nativist rioters burnt out the Asian Indian settlements in Bellingham and Everett, Washington in 1907. In the following decade, protectionist and racist groups, epitomized by the Asian Exclusion League, campaigned against the “Hindu invasion” or “Turban tide” that was perceived as an economic threat to native farmers. Laws were passed in California to strip land ownership from Asian Indians and Japanese in 1913 and 1920. In response, many Asian Indians married Mexican-American women, which for a time exempted them from the law. Asian Indian students who were supporters of independence from the British Empire were expelled from the country by order of President Theodore Roosevelt."

64.74.92.132 19:47, 7 April 2006 (UTC)