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  • Watsonville, California: Hindu devotees shoot arrows into an effigy of Ravana, the villain of the Ramayana epic, whose destruction every year is part of the festival of Dussehra. The death of Ravana marks the triumph of good over evil.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
A military honor guard presents Sukwinder Kaur with the American flag that had draped the coffin of her son. Parminder Singh Shergill, 43, who served in the US Army during the first Gulf War and struggled with mental illness, was shot by police near his home. Officers responding to a 911 call claimed he lunged at them with a knife. Witnesses disputed the police account. An investigation cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Shergill was buried with military honors.
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  • Los Angeles, California | 2005<br />
Aditya Rao sings lead for The Throws, a Los Angeles-based rock band, at Artwallah, an annual festival of South Asian visual arts, music, dance, film, and literature.
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  • Lodi, California | 2014<br />
Mourners attend the flag-draped coffin of Parminder Singh Shergill, a US Army veteran of the first Gulf War who was shot by police near his home.
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  • Pleasanton, California | 2014<br />
Kids play in bubble riders as part of the Diwali festivities at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
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  • Yuba City, California | 2104<br />
Karm Bains is a fourth-generation California farmer, who grows peaches, prunes, walnuts, and almonds. His father, Didar Singh Bains, worked on California farms as a day laborer, saving most of his meager wages and buying land on his way to becoming one of the biggest peach growers in the nation. Sikhs from Punjab first arrived in the early 20th century to work on railroads, sawmills, and in agriculture in Canada. Many settled farther south in California, working first as laborers and then buying and developing land. Today the northern Central Valley is home to a Sikh community that has expanded beyond agriculture and into other forms of business, politics, philanthropy, and the arts.
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  • San Jose, California | 2017<br />
Half in costume, students from Mount Madonna School in Watsonville, California, rehearse for a scene from Ramayana!, a musical adaptation of the Indian epic. Here Sugriva (in Che Guevara t-shirt) prepares to marshal his army of monkeys and bears to help the hero Ram fight for the return of his wife Sita, who has been captured by the Demon King Ravana.
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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  • Ranchers' Day 2022 at the Modoc District Fair in Cedarviile, California. Photo by Preston Merchant (archive.prestonmerchant.com)
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