History Pub - The March 1910 St. Johns “Anti-Hindu” Riot: Its Global Impact

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McMenamins Kennedy School | Portland

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History Pub - The March 1910 St. Johns \u201cAnti-Hindu\u201d Riot: Its Global Impact
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McMenamins and Oregon Historical Society present
History Pub
The March 1910 St. Johns “Anti-Hindu” Riot: Its Global Impact
Presented by Johanna Ogden
McMenamins Kennedy School Theater
Monday, March 31, 2025
7pm/doors 6pm
$5 advance/$6 doors
All ages
Ever think of St. Johns as a center of resistance to British rule of India? Neither did author Johanna Ogden until she began researching Oregon’s early 1900s Indian community. Ogden will discuss the causes and consequences of the 1910 riot, focusing on Ghadar, the global radical nationalist organization that migrant Indian laborers founded in its wake. She will examine how a small Indian settlement in the West became a center of resistance against the British and launched an era-defining U.S. Supreme Court case as well as the US and British governments' efforts to suppress them. In the early 1900s, Oregon was at the center of two entwined quests for Indian independence and civic belonging that rocked the world. To understand why one of the smallest western Indian settlements became a resistance center, Ogden's 𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑗𝑎𝑏𝑖 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑎 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟 mines the colonial underpinnings of labor, race, and place-making and their regional and global connections, rendering a history of whiteness and labor as much as of Indian-ness and migration. Punjabi Rebels complicates our understanding, not just of the global fight for Indian political rights but also of multi-racial democracy.
Johanna Ogden (MA, University of British Columbia) is an independent historian and local activist based in Portland. She has published multiple articles in 𝑂𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑜𝑛 𝐻𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑄𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, including "Ghadar, Historical Silences, and Notions of Belonging," which received the Oregon Historical Society's Joel Palmer Award, and has spoken extensively across the Pacific Northwest and in India. She is the author of 𝑃𝑢𝑛𝑗𝑎𝑏𝑖 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑎 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑙 𝐹𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝.
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