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Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind, Ph.D, (3 October 1892 - 15 September 1967) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship. Only 4 months before his arrival in Astoria a new organization had been formed called the Hindoostan Association of the Pacific Coast. It main objective was to liberate India as the Americans had done more than a century before.

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  • Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind, Ph.D, (3 October 1892 - 15 September 1967) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship. Only 4 months before his arrival in Astoria a new organization had been formed called the Hindoostan Association of the Pacific Coast. It main objective was to liberate India as the Americans had done more than a century before.
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  • Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind, Ph.D, (3 October 1892 - 15 September 1967) was an Indian American Sikh writer and lecturer on "spiritual science" who was involved in an important legal battle over the rights of Indians to obtain U.S. citizenship. Today as Sikhs around the world have been attacked, because of ignorant (lit. those who do not know) people, or because of people who are ignorant of the suffering of the Sikhs at Muslim hands, which in numbers of dead makes 9/11 seem like a small incident, Dr. Thind accomplished what may seem like a small thing compared to his other accomplishments. Today as Khalsa Sikhs fight for their right to wear a beard or turban, not just in France, but in the US military forces - they can look at the 90 year old photo of the young recruit from the Punjab who did what others are still seeking the right to do today. Just days before he turned 20 he had arrived in Seattle, Washington in 1913 on the day that every American holds near to his heart, the day when America had freed itself from the 'Shackles' of British tyranny; July 4th - Independance Day. Little could he imagine the part he would soon be playing in an early attempt to free his homeland from the yoke of the British. Leaving Seattle he worked his way through several lumber camps finally coming to 'rest' in Astoria, Oregon where a sizeable group of Sikhs had found success working in its huge lumber mill industry. He found work at the Hammond Lumber Company where he would work 1914-1920, with a brief interruption in the service of his new found country. Only 4 months before his arrival in Astoria a new organization had been formed called the Hindoostan Association of the Pacific Coast. It main objective was to liberate India as the Americans had done more than a century before.
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