Indian Americans Weren’t Always Seen as a Model Minority. I don’t recall hearing the name Dalip Singh Saund until I was in my 30s, well after I’d left Houston.
Nor had I heard of Vaishno Das Bagai or Bhagat Singh Thind. These names were absent from my childhood. It was as if the entire history that preceded my family’s arrival, the messy parts, had been snipped off.