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  • Indian Muslims in 1910 Oakland

    Indian Muslims in 1910 Oakland

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    Anirvan Chatterjee
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    3 Indian Muslims, a Russian Jewish landlord, and an unfinished story I was looking at local census records, when I ran across something intriguing. The 1910 census records show three Indian men living at 667 Fifth Street, Oakland, California (near present-day Jack London Square): They were born in India, and immigrated to the US in…