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Phase-1 of the project was aimed at collecting Oral histories of 100 first generation Indian immigrants, settled in the greater metropolitan Houston area
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Phase-2 of the project will capture the hopes and aspirations of the second generation Indians raised here
The Foundation for India Studies (FIS) participated in the 11th. Annual Conference of the Texas Oral History Association (TOHA) last month. The Conference was held for two consecutive days in the Gregory School and the Holocaust Museum in Houston. FIS Board member, Hiren Sarema FIS made a power point presentation about the origins and progress of FIS’s Indo-American Oral History project to a room full of enthusiastic audience, assisted by Sudhakar Tallavajhula, also a board member of FIS.
Sarema began the presentation by thanking TOHA organization for awarding FIS the 2019 Mary Faye Barnes Award for Excellence for Community History projects in their San Antonio Conference. TOHA is a 39-year-old organization which operates from the Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
FIS is actively seeking volunteers and also to fill certain Board positions particularly coming from the states of Bihar, Orissa, Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu
The Indo-American Oral History project is a Signature project of the Foundation for India Studies Inc., a non-profit 501(c3) organization registered in Houston, Texas.
Phase-1 of the project was aimed at collecting Oral histories of 100 first generation Indian immigrants, settled in the greater metropolitan Houston area and Phase-2 of the project will capture the hopes and aspirations of the second generation Indians raised here.
So far sixty two (62) interviews have been collected in Phase-1.Phase-2 is yet to begin.
FIS is actively seeking volunteers and also to fill certain Board positions particularly coming from the states of Bihar, Orissa, Bengal, Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka and Tamilnadu.
For more information about FIS, please visit FIS website:www.foundationfoindiastudies.org.
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