Using evocative vignettes and inspiring stories from many of California’s South Asian American citizens, Lea Terhune's California’s Pioneering Punjabis: An American Story contributes to the growing literature on Sikh and Punjabi studies, providing new and welcome case studies of California’s dynamic and often heroic immigrant families, communities, and individuals.
Paul Michael Taylor
Director, Asian Cultural History Program
Curator, Sikh Heritage Project
Smithsonian Institution
Curator, Sikh Heritage Project
Smithsonian Institution
Lea Terhune's interest in the Punjabi immigrants and her unbelievably hard work interviewing so many of them and writing such a readable, indeed exciting, account of their lives has produced a marvelous book. I applaud her achievement and she applauds the achievements of the Punjabi immigrants from South Asia. Worth waiting for this book, years in the making and now here!
Karen Leonard
Professor Emerita,
Anthropology University of California, Irvine
Anthropology University of California, Irvine