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I research South Asian American history in Berkeley, California. And though I hate relying on colonial police/surveillance documents to understand stories of movements, some of the materials are gold.

This 1913 report from British arch-villain super-spy Hopkinson relies on informants to describe tensions among the early pre-Ghadar Indian nationalist students at UC Berkeley.

It includes all kinds of juicy details, including…

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The full letter includes:

  • an address (1936 Bonita)

  • the names of several anti-colonial students present at a meeting

  • the story of the "Loyalists," a new pro-colonial faction of Indian students who consider asking the British consul general for help

  • and a list of Indian magazines and anarchist lit found at the site, including work by Emma Goldman, among others

It also includes a dramatic description of Hopkinson's shocked visit to a Har Dayal lecture at the IWW Hall in SF.

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Source: https://sacda.ca/Detail/objects/8584

"Extract from William C. Hopkinson, Immigration Inspector, to William W. Cory, Deputy Minister of the Interior,"
Jan 20, 1913, South Asian Canadian Digital Archive object 2021_07_4505

Read more about the time:

(Many more references available on request, on any of the people named. We tell some of their stories on our monthly walking tour.)

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