Ravi Vora’s project explores the early 20th century movement of anti-colonial South Asian intellectuals in New York City. These South Asian immigrants fled political repression in India and established countless coalitions and publications to make Americans and Indians within the diaspora aware of the British’s brutality. Through his project, Ravi hopes to bring awareness to an early form of South Asian activism born in US soil and long before the formal movement for Indian independence.
Image credits: South Asian American Digital Archive
About the Archivist
Ravi Vora is a rising senior at Scarsdale High School. He has been a member of the Leadership Board at the Localized History Project since September of his junior year. During his time at the project he has co-authored research papers, collected data, and explored early radical South Asian American political activism.
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Ravi Vora