The subcontinent of India and its people have deep roots in the human history. The Indian subcontinent once was a large mass of the known world comprising Asia, Africa and Europe. Both the Americas and the Australia were not known to the human societies that flourished in Asia, Africa and Europe. Hardly 600 years before both the American continents and Australia were not known to the people who had been inhabiting parts of Asia, Africa and Europe since the birth of human civilization. In these parts of the earth, civilizations have risen and vanished, empires have taken shape and crystallized and then disintegrated. Millennia have rolled over in these known worlds.
Nevertheless, it shall be in order to state a little about both
the Americas, located on the "other side" of the globe. When the westerners set foot on the soil of the Americas, these
continents were also having flourishing civilizations and human habitations.
These were noteworthy for the heights achieved by them. The Mayan cities and
the Aztec settlements were having grandeur and glamour of an unprecedented scale. The land looked
virgin and mostly it was virgin. The people were happy with old heritage. In
these unique settlements, unique practices were in vogue.
When the westerners set foot on the shores
of the Americas, none in the known world may have imagined in their wildest of
the wild dreams that a land of opportunities and unprecedented economic might
shall emerge in the form of the United States of America. The history was to be
created in the form of a nation state that comprised many elements of human
beings from across the world. It was certainly a unique creation of human
civilization. All other civilizations have emerged from the core of one ethnic
group, one social group of people of similar cultural and racial background.
Here in the United States of America a different thing was to happen. Persons
of various nationalities, civilizations, ethnic racial and linguistic groups were to merge
to create a sovereign nation unparalleled in the human history.
In this background, the Indian Americans have excelled in a
variety of vocations and fields in the USA, the land of freedom, free
enterprises and opportunities. These fields include Noble Prize winners; deans,
presidents, professors in academic institutions and scholars; military;
mathematicians, scientists and technologists; medical professions; musicians;
actors and actresses including adult acting; arts and entertainment; fashion
designers; in business and industry as founders, entrepreneurs and venture
capitalists, as business executives; in media and literature; elected officials
and civil servants; religion, sports and many other fields. Obviously, the
Indian Diaspora in the USA has not only silently enjoyed of being in the USA
but has pro-actively contributed to its making in all possible ways.
Indian immigrants in the USA have contributed to the sum total of the social, cultural and economical aggregate that is known as the USA. Over last centuries since the first immigrants set foot on the soil of the USA, several generations of immigrants have come to the USA. During 20th century, large wave of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent arrived in the USA. And, many of them excelled in many fields. Some of them really excelled and put a mark on the USA in their chosen fields. They included personas like Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, Bobby Jindal, Raj Patel, Rajiv Shah, Vivek Kundra, Narayana Kocherlakota, Kalpana Chawla, Pranav Mistry, Har Gobind Khorana, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Sunita Williams, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and countless others who, over a period of time, has become household names in India and very well known in the USA.
Indian immigrants in the USA have contributed to the sum total of the social, cultural and economical aggregate that is known as the USA. Over last centuries since the first immigrants set foot on the soil of the USA, several generations of immigrants have come to the USA. During 20th century, large wave of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent arrived in the USA. And, many of them excelled in many fields. Some of them really excelled and put a mark on the USA in their chosen fields. They included personas like Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, Bobby Jindal, Raj Patel, Rajiv Shah, Vivek Kundra, Narayana Kocherlakota, Kalpana Chawla, Pranav Mistry, Har Gobind Khorana, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Sunita Williams, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and countless others who, over a period of time, has become household names in India and very well known in the USA.
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