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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Visram, Rozina, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asians--Great Britain--History.

Asians.

East Indians--Great Britain--History.

East Indians.

Great Britain--Ethnic relations.

Great Britain.

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