Abstract
In the 1980s, I studied a community in southern California that had been fathered by Panjabi men in the early twentieth century. Most of the mothers were Mexican or Mexican American, and the community was then called Mexican Hindu, now Panjabi Mexican. As I spoke and published about this bi-ethnic community, one that was the model for family life for immigrants from India for at least a generation, the research elicited ambivalent reactions from the new post-1965 immigrants from South Asia who generally came as families where both parents were South Asian. The new immigrants had questions: how and why did the Panjabi Mexican community develop in southern California and elsewhere in the American southwest? Should this community be acknowledged or not? Should it be denied or celebrated?
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