{"id":21,"date":"2011-09-18T17:43:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/?p=21"},"modified":"2011-09-18T17:43:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T17:43:21","slug":"sirdat-jagjit-j-j-singh-1897-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/18\/sirdat-jagjit-j-j-singh-1897-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirdar Jagjit &#8220;J.J.&#8221; Singh (1897-1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 123px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/files\/2011\/09\/JJ-Singh-NYT-1963-113x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of the New York Times<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>owner of &#8220;India Arts and Crafts,&#8221; import shop at 14 East 56th Street, New York<\/li>\n<li>U.S. resident since 1926<\/li>\n<li>president of Indian League of America, 1941(membership totaled 26 (Venkataramani, 9))-1959;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Biographies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"&quot;Robert Shaplen, 71, Writer for New Yorker, Dies&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1988\/05\/16\/obituaries\/robert-shaplen-71-writer-for-new-yorker-dies.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm\" target=\"_blank\">Shaplen, Robert<\/a>. &#8220;Profiles: One-Man Lobby,&#8221; <em>New Yorker Magazine<\/em>, March 24, 1950, 35-55.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Papers<\/em> located in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Library, New Delhi<\/p>\n<p>Mazumdar, Haridas.\u00a0<em>America&#8217;s Contributions to India&#8217;s Freedom<\/em>. New York: Dell, 1960.<\/p>\n<p>30 articles or letters to the editors of major national American newspapers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ex. J.J. Singh, &#8220;India Remains Wary,&#8221; <em>New York Times<\/em>, May 7, 1944.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reflections of Malti Singh (<a title=\"&quot;An Indian American's campaign to 'influence the influencers'&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/envoy.dickinson.edu:2048\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdweb?did=490998021&amp;sid=1&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=4534&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD\" target=\"_blank\">part 1<\/a>, <a title=\"&quot;J.J. Singh: India's Man in the United States&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/envoy.dickinson.edu:2048\/login?url=http:\/\/proquest.umi.com\/pqdweb?did=491014251&amp;sid=2&amp;Fmt=3&amp;clientId=4534&amp;RQT=309&amp;VName=PQD\" target=\"_blank\">part 2<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Singh, Malti.\u00a0 &#8220;J.J. Singh: India&#8217;s Man in the United States; An Indian American&#8217;s campaign to `influence the influencers&#8217;.&#8221;\u00a0<em>India Abroad<\/em>,\u00a0 August\u00a01,\u00a01997;\u00a0&#8220;J.J. Singh: India&#8217;s Man in the United States; Campaign focuses on famine relief as freedom dawns.&#8221;\u00a0<em>India Abroad<\/em>,\u00a0 August\u00a08,\u00a01997.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malti Saksena, daughter of High Commissioner for India to Canada and former ConsulGeneral in New York, married Singh in October 1951. (&#8220;Troth announced of Malti Saksena, <em>NYT<\/em>, September 20, 1951)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>owner of &#8220;India Arts and Crafts,&#8221; import shop at 14 East 56th Street, New York U.S. resident since 1926 president of Indian League of America, 1941(membership totaled 26 (Venkataramani, 9))-1959; Biographies Shaplen, Robert. &#8220;Profiles: One-Man Lobby,&#8221; New Yorker Magazine, March &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/2011\/09\/18\/sirdat-jagjit-j-j-singh-1897-1976\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39553,1692],"tags":[6061,39561],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies","category-lobbyists","tag-j-j","tag-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-solnit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}