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These photographs show Indian student exhibits at Western’s international Bazaar. The first, from the 1970s, focused on Indian cuisine. The second, from 1991, focused on Indian textiles and fashion items. 

In 1983, Western Illinois University's International Bazaar featured country-specific booths that displayed local culture and customs. The image shows a large number of individuals visiting the Sri Lankan booth, and tasting Sri Lankan food, evidence…

This photograph shows a student, Yasmin Wahid, from Karachi, Pakistan, upon her graduation from Western. Her white regalia shows she served as a commencement ceremony marshal. She received an M.A. degree in business. This picture was taken with…

These newspaper articles trace the impact of a visiting scholar, Dr. Vasudeva B. Kamath, in the Western community. Dr. Kamath and his wife, of Bombay (now Mumbai), India, first arrived for an appointment at Western for the fall 1960 semester. As a…

Pakistan's attempt to suppress Bangladesh's independence movement, which began March 25, 1971, devolved into genocide. Through the year 1971, the Pakistani military and local pro-Pakistan militias killed as many as three million Bangladeshi people,…

In the midst of America’s war in Vietnam, Macomb residents read of Bangladesh’s Liberation War of 1971, which erupted on March 26, 1971. Most Bengali-speaking people in East Pakistan supported this move, while many Urdu-speaking Biharis opposed it…

Throughout the years, there have been a number of Asian restaurants in Macomb. The first was probably Billy Woo's Chop Suey and Steak House, at 112 North Campbell Street, open from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s. Chinese men who came to the United…

A 1990 Western Courier story reported on the cultural challenges that many of the 500 international students enrolled at Western faced. A story featured interviews of students from Gambia, China and Pakistan. A Chinese graduate student named Doris…

On October 5, 1986, students from the Republic of China (ROC), also known as Taiwan, gathered in Higgins Hall to celebrate National Day. National Day, actually October 10, commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911 that ended the imperial…

Pictured here is a group of Chinese students in 1985 assembling dumplings, jiao zi, to celebrate the Lunar New Year. In doing so, they kept their tradition alive, originating in the Ming Dynasty, at a time when they might have felt homesick. The…