This month the question was approximately how many Indians (country of India) settled in the US between 1899 and 1914? To quote from our source:
Approximately 6,800 Indians settled in the western U.S. between 1899 and 1914. During this period, India's Punjab region was undergoing rapid modernization that displaced many people from their land. At the same time, such cash crops as indigo instead of food crops were being grown for the British Empire, which then ruled India; this led to famine for many Punjabi farmers. As a result, the youngest sons of Punjabi families were encouraged to immigrate to the U.S. to find work to support their families in India. Most of the immigrants came from landowning Sikh families. However, the U.S. public generally believed that these immigrants were impoverished "Hindoos" (Hindus).
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