SPECIAL EPISODE 06 | Your Servant
On January 9th, 1915 - just two days before his execution - Bhai Mewa Singh wrote a letter to the community in Stockton. With the help of co...
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The Nameless Collective Podcast
The Nameless Collective Podcast is hosted by Milan Singh, Naveen Girn & Paneet Singh - a trio of historians, researchers and explorers who travel to the archive to rediscover history, solve...
Episodes
19 episodes
SPECIAL EPISODE 05 | Country of Origin
The first challenge to Canada’s discriminatory “Continuous Journey” regulation took place on February 14, 1908, less than a month after the...
SPECIAL EPISODE 04 | The Language of Revolution
Special Podcast Alert: The impact of the Farmer’s protest has reverberated around the world. This week Milan, Paneet and Naveen examine The...
S02 E05: Robert's Rules For Revolution
S03E05: The Indian independence movement was seen as seditious and illegal, and supporting this movement and any anti-British activism from...
S02 E04: Activist to Sant: The Teja Singh Story
S02E04: Activist. Preacher. Harvard graduate. Anti-British. We follow the intriguing life of Teja Singh; from an anti-British activist in a...
S02 E03: Demystifying Hopkinson and We Solve A Mystery
S02E03: Who really was William C. Hopkinson? We try to demystify the complicated man and his obsession with the local South Asian community....
S02 E02: The Ballad of Bela Singh
S02E02: Described as the "smartest dressed East Indian in Vancouver" Bela Singh was a British informant accused of several crimes, including...
S02 E01: Crime and Criminality
We're back! Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast is here after a long hiatus, and we've got five episodes full of surprises, stories,...
SPECIAL EPISODE 03 | "Did You Paint Your Nose and Your Hands Brown?!" Racism and the Canadian Election
Blackface. Model minorities. Bill 21. Racism. It's the Canadian Federal Election, and The Nameless Collective discuss the burden of represen...
SPECIAL EPISODE 02 | The Politics of Un-Naming
A federal building in Vancouver is officially un-named, and a mural emerges in its place. This special episode of The Nameless Collective Po...
SPECIAL EPISODE 01 | Stagnant Storytelling: Canadian Media Portrayals of South Asians
Although we're working on Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we decided to release a special episode to comment on the media storm...
S01 E08: The Hanging of Mewa Singh
When do people of colour enter the archive? "When we’re buying property or breaking the law." In 1914, Mewa Singh shot William C. Hopkinson...
S01 E07: The Hindoo Missile Crisis
Hopkinson is overwhelmed. The passengers retaliate. This episode we wrap up our conversation about the Komagata Maru and share stories about...
S01 E06: Come Again? The Komagata Maru Story
What's there left to say about the Komagata Maru, 103 years after the boat was turned away from Canada on July 23? Naveen, Milan and Paneet...
S01 E05: Big Dog, Little Dog, or the Khutha Bundha
Spy games. This week The Nameless Collective analyze declassified government documents regarding a New Year’s Eve gathering in Vancouver’s C...
S01 E04: My Name is Ghadar
Conspiracy. Revolution. Independence. The Ghadar movement was a revolutionary call for Indian independence from the British Empire in the ea...
S01 E03: When Annie Wright Became Labh Kaur
The first Sikh wedding at the Second Avenue Gurdwara (Khalsa Diwan Society) in Vancouver was also an intercultural union. Annie Wright and M...
S01 E02: Detained and Deported
Detention, deportation, and the prevention of family reunification. In Episode 2 we chat about the lives of the few South Asian women allowe...
S01 E01: White Canada Forever?
Welcome to The Nameless Collective Podcast , hosted by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh & Paneet Singh - a trio of historians and storytellers fasci...