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| Title | Ajgaonkar, Vijaya and Ajgaonkar, A.S. "Praful" |
| Creator | UH - Houston History Project
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| Interviewer | Quaraishi, Uzma
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| Project | UH - Oral History of Houston Project
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| Description | This interview includes several exchanges in Urdu/Hindi since Mrs. Ajgaonkar's first language is Marathi. All such passages have been translated into English. The Ajgaonkars are from Mumbai, India. Praful came to Lubbock, Texas in 1964 to complete his BS in chemical engineering from Texas A &M University. He recalls ROTC being a central feature of the university as well as it being an all-male campus. He spent a short time in Houston in 1966, moved to Dallas for two years until 1969, returned to Houston for two years, and then lived in India for 6 months. He had married Vijaya in 1967, permanently settling in Houston in 1973. For a short time, the family lived in southwest Houston at Bellaire and Hillcroft before moving to Alief. There, they raised a son and a daughter. They comment on the changing demographics of the Alief area, public schools and immigration. |
| Date | September 5, 2011 |
| Genre | interviews
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| Subject (Name) | Ajgaonkar, Vijaya
Ajgaonkar, A.S.
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| Subject.Topical (LCSH) | Immigration
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| Subject (Geographic) | Sugar Land, Texas
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| Original Collection | Oral Histories – Houston History Project http://archon.lib.uh.edu/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=231 |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Original Item Location | ID 2006-005, Box 13, HHA 00731 |
| Use and Reproduction | Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner. For more information please see the UH Digital Library Fair Use policy on the "About" page of this website. |
| File name | index.cpd |
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