Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive, 1900-2019

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Summary

Creators:
Ranganath, Nicole, Dr.
Abstract:
The Pioneering Punjabi Digital Archive is the most extensive collection of archival material documenting the first significant South Asian community in the United States. The collection includes over 1,300 photographs, rare archival films, letters, newspaper articles, songs, and audio interviews of South Asians who arrived in California from the Punjab region of north India beginning in the 1890s.
Extent:
1319 digital objects
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive, D-643, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

The Pioneering Punjabi Digital Archive is the most extensive collection of archival material documenting the first significant South Asian community in the United States. The collection includes over 1,300 photographs, rare archival films, letters, newspaper articles, songs, and audio interviews of South Asians who arrived in California from the Punjab region of north India beginning in the 1890s. The materials in this repository will be enhanced by visiting pioneeringpunjabis.ucdavis.edu, a more heavily curated subset of these materials that includes contextual scholarship and classroom tools.

Acquisition information:
The collection is curated by Dr. Nicole Ranganath, a historian, filmmaker, and faculty member in the UC Davis Middle East/South Asia Studies Program. The materials were contributed by Yuba City's Punjabi American Heritage Society, Mrs. Manjeet Sibia, and numerous Punjabi American families and individuals. Mrs. Sibia's contributions reflect the work by her late husband who was a UC Davis librarian, Tejinder (Ted) Sibia.
Processing information:

Liz Phillips developed this finding aid from data supplied by Dr. Nicole Ranganath.

Arrangement:

In this finding aid, the materials are arranged by contributor and items are listed chronologically within each group.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Permission policies for publication and reproduction: By granting permission to examine holdings, or by supplying a reproduction, the Library is not authorizing publication. The researcher must obtain permission to publish texts or facsimiles from the owner of the copyright, typically the author/creator, or the heirs to his or her estate. The users of materials with the department's holdings are responsible for respecting the rights of authors/creators or their estates. Please write to Dr. Nicole Ranganath at pioneeringpunjabis@ucdavis.edu for inquiries regarding publication and reproduction or with other questions and comments.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Pioneering Punjabis Digital Archive, D-643, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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