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The Nameless Collective Podcast is hosted by Milan Singh, Naveen Girn & Paneet Singh - a trio of historians, researchers and explorers who travel to the archive to rediscover history, solve mysteries, and provide a space for the untold histories of Vancouver's South Asian community. A South Asian History and Vancouver History Podcast produced by Manjot Bains and Jugnistyle.com.
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On January 9th, 1915 - just two days before his execution - Bhai Mewa Singh wrote a letter to the community in Stockton. With the help of community researchers and archivists, this letter has been digitized, interpreted, and made accessible to the public for the first time on thenamelesscollective.ca. In this episode, the team discusses the nuances…
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The first challenge to Canada’s discriminatory “Continuous Journey” regulation took place on February 14, 1908, less than a month after the regulation was put on the books. Six South Asian passengers onboard the S.S. Aorangi made their voyage to Canada via Fiji but were denied entry because they did not come to Canada via their country of origin. I…
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SPECIAL EPISODE 04 | The Language of Revolution
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Special Podcast Alert: The impact of the Farmer’s protest has reverberated around the world. This week Milan, Paneet and Naveen examine The Trolley Times - a multilingual publication recording the stories of the protest through poetry, editorial, and journalism. They discuss The Trolley Times as part of a longer tradition of revolutionary publicati…
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S03E05: The Indian independence movement was seen as seditious and illegal, and supporting this movement and any anti-British activism from abroad was monitored closely. We reached really deep into the past for this one. Two freedom movements based in vancouver that no one ever really heard about, because sometimes, they couldn't reach quorum. In S…
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S02 E04: Activist to Sant: The Teja Singh Story
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S02E04: Activist. Preacher. Harvard graduate. Anti-British. We follow the intriguing life of Teja Singh; from an anti-British activist in a 3-piece suit living in Vancouver and travelling across North America, to a quiet life as a sant or holy person in India in the 1960s. Complementary to Teja Singh was Ghadar revolutionary Balwant Singh. The poli…
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S02 E03: Demystifying Hopkinson and We Solve A Mystery
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S02E03: Who really was William C. Hopkinson? We try to demystify the complicated man and his obsession with the local South Asian community. And did he really fool anyone when he put on a costume and spied on the community at the gurdwara? We also follow a trail of documents and diaries to fill in the blanks and figure out what happened to the chil…
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S02E02: Described as the "smartest dressed East Indian in Vancouver" Bela Singh was a British informant accused of several crimes, including murdering community leader and ghadarite Bhai Bhag Singh. We discuss the violent, bloody altercations between Team Bela Singh (Pro-British) and Team Bhai Bhag Singh (Pro-Ghadarites/Pro-Indian Independence) in …
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We're back! Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast is here after a long hiatus, and we've got five episodes full of surprises, stories, and a few mysteries. This season, we talk about crime & criminality, and what constitutes criminal behaviour amongst early South Asian settlers in and around Vancouver, Canada. In Episode 1, we look at a book …
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SPECIAL EPISODE 03 | "Did You Paint Your Nose and Your Hands Brown?!" Racism and the Canadian Election
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Blackface. Model minorities. Bill 21. Racism. It's the Canadian Federal Election, and The Nameless Collective discuss the burden of representation, the country's first racialized candidate for Prime Minister, the repercussions of calling out racism, generational differences in understanding racism, and of course, the Blackface incident. The Nameles…
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SPECIAL EPISODE 02 | The Politics of Un-Naming
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A federal building in Vancouver is officially un-named, and a mural emerges in its place. This special episode of The Nameless Collective Podcast discusses politics of un-naming the H.H. Stevens federal building in Vancouver, and the Indigenous and South Asian artist collaboration that points to new ways of looking at history in a post-apology worl…
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SPECIAL EPISODE 01 | Stagnant Storytelling: Canadian Media Portrayals of South Asians
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Although we're working on Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we decided to release a special episode to comment on the media storm around Sikh identity in Canada, race, and representation in the news. Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is the catalyst to this conversation, but we know that this type of stagnant storytelling by Canadian medi…
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When do people of colour enter the archive? "When we’re buying property or breaking the law." In 1914, Mewa Singh shot William C. Hopkinson at the Provincial Courthouse of British Columbia. He turned himself in to the police, and was hanged for the murder. His crime gives him a place in the official archive, but his name and spirit reverberate acro…
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Hopkinson is overwhelmed. The passengers retaliate. This episode we wrap up our conversation about the Komagata Maru and share stories about what happened to the passengers once they returned home to India. But that's not all. We also walk you through our first visit to Library and Archives Canada - the national archive based in Ottawa, where we un…
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S01 E06: Come Again? The Komagata Maru Story
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What's there left to say about the Komagata Maru, 103 years after the boat was turned away from Canada on July 23? Naveen, Milan and Paneet discuss what was happening on the shore and behind-the-scenes with the Canadian government as the Komagata Maru ship made its way from Asia to Vancouver in 1914. The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 1 is a Ca…
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S01 E05: Big Dog, Little Dog, or the Khutha Bundha
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Spy games. This week The Nameless Collective analyze declassified government documents regarding a New Year’s Eve gathering in Vancouver’s Chinatown. Names are called, lines are drawn, traitors identified. The year is 1913. The trio also attempt to put names to the nameless in a photograph from Harnam Kaur’s cremation, and speculate on who is prese…
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Conspiracy. Revolution. Independence. The Ghadar movement was a revolutionary call for Indian independence from the British Empire in the early 1900s. And while there were Ghadar branches throughout the world, in this episode we highlight the critical role Vancouver played in this movement. We also discuss the newspapers that were furiously publish…
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S01 E03: When Annie Wright Became Labh Kaur
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The first Sikh wedding at the Second Avenue Gurdwara (Khalsa Diwan Society) in Vancouver was also an intercultural union. Annie Wright and Munsha Singh fell in love and were married in 1909, and made history as not only the first couple to be married at the gurdwara, but also as the first noted marriage between a Caucasian Christian and a South Asi…
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Detention, deportation, and the prevention of family reunification. In Episode 2 we chat about the lives of the few South Asian women allowed into Vancouver between 1905 and 1920. We also chat about that time Bhag Singh got the community to burn their British military service medals. The Nameless Collective Podcast is a Canadian history podcast hos…
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Welcome to The Nameless Collective Podcast, hosted by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh & Paneet Singh - a trio of historians and storytellers fascinated with South Asian and Canadian History. In the first episode, we set the context for early South Asian migration to Vancouver, Canada. The “White Canada Forever” movement, race riots, Sant Teja Singh, and C…
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