When Dalip Singh Saund came to the United States, South Asian residents were ineligible for citizenship. Saund was born in Punjab, India in 1899, and immigrated to the United States at twenty years of age to further his education. Even though Saund planned to return to India once he finished school, his next trip to India happened forty years later as a Member of Congress. After Saund earned his master’s and doctorate degrees at the University of California, Berkeley, he developed an interest in local affairs.
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