Stay ConnectedThe 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 of the letter, some of the indications it gives us about time period, and what it means to hear Mewa Singh's own voice for the first time.
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. In this episode, Milan, Paneet and Naveen – with special guest Anita Singh – share insight into Fiji and the indentured labour system, and discuss how South Asians from anywhere in the British Empire were restricted from coming to Canada.
The Nameless Collective Podcast SPECIAL EPISODE 05 is a Canadian History podcast episode. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
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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 publications like Gadhar Dj Goonj and highlight the nuanced look at gender and caste that sets it apart.
The Nameless Collective Podcast SPECIAL EPISODE 04 is a Canadian History podcast episode produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we talk about crime & criminality, and what constitutes criminal behaviour amongst early South Asian settlers in and around Vancouver, Canada.
*Cover art image is of Balwant Singh, photographer unknown. 1914. Retrieved from http://komagatamarujourney.ca/node/4536.
The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 2 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 political activist was a priest at the Vancouver gurdwara who was active in Indian independence movements across the world.
In Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we talk about crime & criminality, and what constitutes criminal behaviour amongst early South Asian settlers in and around Vancouver, Canada.
*Cover art image is of Sant Teja Singh, courtesy Library of Congress Archives.
The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 2 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 children of Bibi Harnam Kaur and Bhai Bhag Singh. Aaannnddd we solve a mystery!
In Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we talk about crime & criminality, and what constitutes criminal behaviour amongst early South Asian settlers in and around Vancouver, Canada.
*Cover art image is from Harnam Kaur, a graphic novel by Milan Singh with art by Keerat Kaur, published by the South Asian Canadian Histories Association, 2019.
The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 2 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 this episode.
In Season 2 of The Nameless Collective Podcast, we talk about crime & criminality, and what constitutes criminal behaviour amongst early South Asian settlers in and around Vancouver, Canada.
*Cover art image is from the Vancouver Daily Province, 1, 4, 10 Sept., 1914. Retrieved from
The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 2 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 of mugshots, which include Louis Seville, listed as a "Hindoo" in the file, and accused of stealing a purse and $15. We also delve deep into the newspaper archives to piece together stories about South Asians accused of crimes in the early 1900s, and try and fill in the gaps.
*Cover art image is a photo of Louis Seville from the City of Vancouver archive.
The Nameless Collective Podcast Season 2 is a Canadian History podcast produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 Nameless Collective Podcast SPECIAL EPISODE 03 is a Canadian History podcast episode produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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 world. And we tackle the problematic history of the word, taikey, a Punjabi word for First Nations Peoples that only exists in British Columbia, Canada.
The Nameless Collective Podcast Special Episode 02 is a Canadian History podcast episode produced by JugniStyle.com and Manjot Bains. The show is hosted and researched by Naveen Girn, Milan Singh and Paneet Singh in Vancouver, Canada. Music: A Melodic Shade of Blu ft. Keerat Kaur, by WiseChild.
For photo references and more information on the show, visit thenameless.co. Send your history questions and comments to team@thenameless.co.
Follow The Nameless Collective Podcast on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and use hashtag #thenameless.
Subscribe to The Nameless Collective, a Canadian history podcast, available on Apple, Google, Spotify, Stitcher, and wherever you find your podcasts. South Asian History and Vancouver History.
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