Exterior of Pooja Grocers, 855 45th Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis. The store opened in 2009 to meet the growing needs of Indian Americans in Minnesota. Photographed by Preeti Mathur in March 2017.
Students in a Malayalam language class (level 1) pose for a photograph at the School of India for Languages and Culture (SILC) in St. Paul's Como Park High School during October 2006. Pictured are (clockwise, left to right): Manoj Shah, Vishnu Namboodiripad, Lata Menon, Prem Shah, and Aradhana Menon. Photographed by Ajay Patil.
Picnic attendees in St. Paul raise the national flag of India at an event held to celebrate India’s independence from Great Britain. Photographed by Anoop Mathur in August 2003.
Sam (Smarajit) and Sumita Mitra, a husband-and-wife team of 3M research scientists, display their U.S. patent for copolymerizable UV stabilizers, 1987. Used with the permission of Sam and Sumita Mitra.
Preeti Mathur (first row, center left) at Bombay Airport in April 1978 with family on the eve of her departure to the United States. Used with the permission of Preeti Mathur.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, job prospects in farming and on railroads drew the first Indian immigrants—mostly men—from Asia to the United States. It wasn’t until the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, however, that Minnesota officially opened its doors to Indians.
