2011-08-16

Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston

This is an oral history interview with Uma Rajguru conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Uma Rajguru is a retired medical technologist. She was born in Poona and raised in Bombay where she completed her BS. She earned her MS at UC Berkeley in 1965, returned to India and worked. After marriage, she and her husband, Anil, moved to Delhi and London, before settling in Houston in 1974. She has two sons, worked for over thirty years, and has lived in the greater Houston area since arrival. Her older son married a Mexican American woman. In the interview, Ms. Rajguru speaks in detail about her childhood in Poona, arranged marriage in India, the various regions of India and her social interactions in Houston. Interviewer: Uzma Quaraishi

interviews

Emigration and immigration; Rajguru, Uma

Sugar Land, Texas

Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

English

Collection
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Houston History Archives
Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

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