History & Demographics

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• History of Indians in the US
• Indians in the USA -- A Success Story
• Read about Mexican Hindus out here.
• Browse this interesting web-site to read more about Indian (mostly Punjabi) immigration to North America since the late 1800's to the early 1900's. You can find some photographs and a chronology of immigration events.
• Hinduism in America -- A Study.
• The Univerity of Berkeley Library site has a South Asian Diaspora page with lots of links and interesting information.
• A Political History of Asian Indians in the United States
• Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora

• If you are looking for detailed statistics about the number of Asian Indians in the US, the U.S. Census Bureau is the source you want to go to.
• Here is a nice interface to the 1990 US census data for the San Francisco/Bay area. Try the "Race and Ethnicity" category to see statistics on how many Asian Indians are there in the various parts of the Bay Area.
• Some demographic data on Indians in the US