Asians in Britain : 400 years of history / Rozina Visram.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Visram, Rozina, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Asians--Great Britain--History.
• East Indians--Great Britain--History.
• Great Britain--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (497 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A groundbreaking history of Asian settlement in Britain from 1700 to the present day.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. A Long Presence
• 2. Early Arrivals, 1600-1830s
• 3. A Community in the Making 1830s-1914
• 4. Through Indian Eyes
• 5. Parliamentarians, Revolutionaries and Suffragettes
• 6. Indians in the First World War
• 7. Citizens or Aliens?
• 8. Lascar Activism in Britain, 1920-45
• 9. Asians in Britain, 1919-47
• 10. Radical Voices
• 11. Contributions in the Second World War
• 12. Conclusions
• Notes
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Abbas, Dr G., 271
• Abdoolah, James, 65
• Abdoolah, Jan 66
• Abdoollah, Prof. Syed 87
• Abdulah [lascar] 27
• Aberdeen University
• 36
• 288
• Aberdeen, Indian pedlars in 261
• Abrahams, Peter 330
• Adam, William Patrick 123
• Adams, Caroline 281
• Adams, Frederick James
• 217
• 330
• Adeen, Ameen 65
• Adenese seafarers in Britain
• 203
• 204
• 206
• 214
• 215
• 271
• Admiralty 244
• advertisements
• by Indians seeking work, 10
• for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 7
• for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 13
• for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 36
• Africans and people of African descent
• in Britain, 8
• in Britain, 12
• in Britain, 20-1
• in Britain, 23
• in Britain, 30
• in Britain, 59
• in Britain, 64
• in Britain, 68
• in Britain, 198
• in Britain, 201
• in Britain, 203
• in Britain, 206
• in Britain, 216
• in Britain, 218-19
• Aga Khan
• 148
• 160
• 298
• Ahmad, Aziz 62-4
• Ahmad, Fyez 238-9
• Ahmadiya Mosque, Putney 298
• Ahmed, Mrs Mahomed 257
• Ahmed, Rafiuddin
• 47
• 48
• Aikin, Lucy 34
• Air Ministry Directorate of Air Intelligence 351.
• Akbar II, Shah, Mughal Emperor 34
• Akbar-i-Am 63
• Akbari i Jang 176
• Alam, Shah, Mughal Emperor 33
• Aldred, Guy Alfred 154
• Alexandra, Princess of Wales [afterwards Queen-Consort] 45
• Ali, Aftab
• 219
• 229-30
• 237
• 240
• 241
• 250
• 252
• Ali, Ayub
• 257
• 264
• 297
• 415 n.7
• Ali, Dusé Mohamed 136
• Ali, Fazal 261
• Ali, Hurmat 45
• Ali, Karim 124
• Ali, Mir Azfal 124
• Ali, Mosharaf 280-1
• Ali, Muktar 256
• Ali, Nawab
• 259
• 268
• Ali, Yusuf 338
• Aliens Act [1906]
• 57
• 205
• Aliens Restriction Order [1920]
• 208-11 passim
• 213
• 216
• Alipore Conspiracy case [1908] 282
• All-India Muslim League
• London Branch, 148
• UK Branch, 257
• All-India Seafarers' Federation 252-3
• All-India Seamen's Federation
• passim
• 229
• 230
• 237-42 passim
• 245-8
• All-India Trades Union Congress
• 303
• 307
• 314
• 314-15
• All-India Union of Seamen Centred in Great Britain [All-India Seamen's Centre] 249-51 passim
• All-Max Coffee House 31-2
• Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford 77-8
• Allen, Sheila 298
• Alley, Surat
• 239-53 passim
• 272
• 326
• 349
• 406 n.96
• Allingham, Helen 53
• Ally, Syed Tofussil
• 243
• 256-7
• Amato, Donna 291
• Ameer Ali, Syed
• 146-9
• called to the Bar, 146
• Ameer Ali, Toric 149
• Amery, Leopold Stennett
• 290
• 334
• 338
• 339
• Amos, Mrs Sheldon 96
• Ampthill, Arthur Oliver Villiers
• 2nd Baron
• 185
• Amrit Bazaar Patrika 288
• Amritsar massacre [1919]
• 196
• 300
• 322
• Anand, Mulk Raj
• 174
• 289
• 324
• 360
• Letters on India [ 324
• Anchor Line
• 197
• 235
• Anderson, Lady Lydia 293
• Anderson, Mrs Elizabeth Garrett 166
• Angadi, Ayana D. ['Raj Hansa'] 290
• Anglo-Boer War
• 60
• 79.
• 308
• Anglo-Indians
• 140
• 147
• 210
• 211
• Anson, Capt. the Hon, George 80-2
• Anthony, Domingo 23
• Anti-Corn Law League 129
• Antonio, Emanuel 27
• Arabs in Britain
• 256
• 266
• seafarers, 198
• seafarers, 201-7 passim
• seafarers, 216
• seafarers, 219
• Archer, John Richard
• 138
• 308
• 310-11
• architecture, British, Indian influence
• 5
• 42
• 45
• 355
• Army Council
• 186
• Arnall, John 424-5 n.20
• Arnold, W.T. 90
• Ashe, Thomas 301
• Ashraf, A.M. 262
• Asia 62
• Asian and African Film Artistes' Association 259
• Asian Music Circle 290
• Asiatic Rest 60
• Asquith, Herbert Henry
• 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
• 159
• Atholl, Sir John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray
• 7th Duke of
• 101
• Atlantic Charter
• 335
• Attlee, Clement Richard
• 319
• 329
• Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre 345
• Auden, W.H. 289
• Auriol, John Lewis 12
• Australia, strikes and imprisonment of lascars
• 234
• Awadth, Nawab Eckbaloo Dowlah, Prince of 124
• Awister, Dr 41
• Ayahs
• 2
• 6
• 7
• 10
• 11
• 44
• 50-4
• 58
• 110
• 357
• 361 n.2
• British view of, 53
• Ayahs' Home
• 51-3
• 373 n.24
• Ayyar, A.S.P.
• 275
• 280
• Azad Hind 270
• Baig, Sir Abbas Ali 298
• Baijnath, Lala
• 105
• 111
• 115
• 116
• Baines, C.E. 204
• Baker, Capt. 8
• Baker, Godfrey 38
• Baker, Ora Ray 349
• Bakhsh, Mohammed 265
• Baksh, Bibi Faiz, Begum of Oudh
• 35
• Baksh, Khuda [basket-maker] 65
• Baldwin, Stanley [afterwards 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley] 314
• Balfour, Arthur James
• 1st earl of
• 94
• Banarji, Dr 295
• Bande Mataram
• 153
• Banerji, Ajoy 317
• Bannerjea, Surendranath
• 127
• 131
• Bans, Bishen Singh 263
• Baptiseter, John 23.
• baptisms, of Indians brought to Britain
• 1
• 6-7
• 12
• Barnes, Alfred 346
• Baroda, Gaekwar of 164
• Baroda, Maharani of 164
• Barrow, Gen. Sir Edmund 187
• Barton-on-Sea convalescent camp
• 181
• 188
• 190
• Barwell, Richard 5
• Basra, Thakur Singh
• 270
• 418 n.46
• Bath, Asians in
• nabobs in, 5
• nabobs in, 9
• Batlivala, Bhicoo
• 283
• 337
• Battersea
• 308-11
• 312
• 313
• 425 n.28
• Labour and Trades Council, 308-10
• Battersea Labour League 310
• Battle of Britain, Indian pilots in 345
• Baty, Jim 283
• Bayly, C.A. 128
• Beck, Adolf 82
• Beg, Wuzeer 87
• Belden, Revd A.D. 326-7
• Belfast Newsletter 13
• Belfast, Indian pedlar in 260
• Bell, Mrs Evans 135
• Bell, Thomas 316
• Belli, John 35
• Benares, Maharaja of 355
• Bengal and Bengalis
• 4
• 8-16 passim
• 22
• 33
• 36-8 passim
• 54
• 61
• 83
• 84
• 87
• 88
• 96
• Bengal Artillery 36
• Bengal Board of Trade 26
• Bengal Legislative Council 147
• Bengal Mariners' Union 229
• Bennett [Benoît], Ally Bux [Charles Alexander] 35
• Bennett [Benoît], Banu Jain [baptised Ann] 35
• Bennett [Benoît], Hélène 35-6
• Benson, Lt R.L. 180
• Besant, Annie
• 305
• 320
• 321
• Bettany, G.T. 77
• Bevin, Ernest
• 341
• Bhabha, Dr S.D.
• 90
• 151
• Bhai, Dada [lodging-house keeper] 66
• Bhandari, Dr P.C. 298
• Bhargava, M.L. 297
• Bhatia, Ganpat Rai 281
• Bhatt, Dr K.S.
• 282
• Bhattacharya, Asha 297
• Bhattacharya, Dr [factory doctor] 79
• Bhimani, Nazlin 291
• Bhopal, Begum
• 104
• 112
• Bhore, Mary 118
• Bhose, Revd E.B.
• 61-2
• 64
• Bhownagree, Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee
• 137
• 139-46
• 149
• Indian interests, 144.
• queries treatment of Indians in South Africa, queries aspects of mil
• queries treatment of Indians in South Africa, 144
• Bhumgara, F.J. 234
• Bhupindra Dharamsala [Sikh Gurdwara]
• 258
• 297-8
• Bhuyan, Surya Kumar 86
• Bibliophile bookshop 278-9
• Bilgrami, Syed Ali 87
• Bimbi [ayah]
• 364 n.35
• Bimbi [servant] 12
• Binyon, Lawrence 289
• Birdwood, Sir George
• 139
• Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith
• 1st Earl of
• 178
• 316
• Birmingham
• Asians, 66
• Asians, 67
• Asians, 79
• Asians, 245
• Asians, 273
• Asians, 324
• Indian visitors, 112
• Birmingham Indian Association 297
• Bishop, Emily Jane 71
• Bishop, Reg 305
• Bishop, William Avery 173
• Black Poor 18-25
• Blackman, Peter 259
• Board of Trade
• 56
• 207
• 225-6
• 228
• 235-38
• and discrimination against Indian seafarers, 220
• passim, 241
• Boigne, Gen. Benoît de 35
• Bokanky, Doctor [street herbalist] 66
• Bolla [lascar] 26-7
• Bolton Chamber of Trade 266
• Bolton, Indian pedlars in 265-6
• Bomanji, Sir Dhunjibhoy and Lady
• Bombay
• 3
• 26
• 55
• 62
• 65
• 85
• 86
• 124
• 126
• 133
• 152
• 170
• 189
• 198
• Bombay Association 126
• Bombay Chronicle
• 315
• Bombay Congress 153
• Bombay Corporation 315
• Bombay Emporium [Grafton Street, London
• afterwards Bombay International]
• afterwards Bombay International], 279
• afterwards Bombay International], 355
• Bombay Legislative Council 126
• Bombay Parsi Cricket Club 97
• Bombay Seamen's Union
• Bombay University
• 79
• Bonarjee, Lt Stephen 292
• Bonarjee, Revd Pitt 292.
• Bonnerjee [afterwards Blair], Nolini [Nelly] Héloise.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781783715572
• 178371557X
• 9781849640299
• 1849640297

OCLC:

651657319