Vaishno Das Bagai Research Paper

Vaishno Das Bagai was born in British ruled Peshawar, India in 1891 to an upper-class, well educated family. When he was 3 or 4 he was engaged to the woman who would be his wife, as per Indian traditions. When they were 12, they were married and she was sent to live with the Bagai family. By the time Vaishno’s father passed away in 1913, he had 3 sons and was actively working with the Gadar Party in San Francisco for India’s freedom from British rule. When a high ranking member of the Gadar Party invited Vaishno to join their cause in America, he sold all of his properties, packed up his family, and set sail for America.

The Bagais immigrated to Angel Island September 6, 1915. However, since they arrived on a Saturday, the immigration offices were closed. The majority of the Bagai’s time on Angel Island was spent waiting for Monday, for when the office reopened people could finally get into America. When Vaishno was questioned by the immigration authorities he showed them 25,000 dollars in gold and told them of his plans to open a business and buy a house. He and his family were

The United States had only been in the war for nineteen months but we felt the world’s economic pressure when it came to shipping goods, which meant plentiful but hard work for the owners of importing companies. When Vaishno died in 1928 prohibition was still in effect and the Olympics were taking place in Amsterdam. Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon to incorporate sound, would premier later that year and the 1st Academy Awards would be held the year after that. On a positive note, Bagai missed the Great Depression (1929-39) by a hair and avoided seeing the economy plummet. All three of his sons attended and graduated from college. They became citizens after Congress passed the Luce-Celler act in 1946 making their dad proud in the after