Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Visram, Rozina, 1939-

Publication

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

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Details

Description

xii, 488 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

• "In this new, groundbreaking book, Rozina Visram offers an extensively researched, comprehensive study of Asians from the Indian subcontinent in Britain. Spanning four centuries, it tells the history of the Indian community in Britain from the servants, ayahs and sailors of the seventeenth century, to the students, princes, soldiers, professionals and entrepreneurs of the 19th and 20th centuries.
• Drawing on primary resources and recently declassified government documents, Visram examines the nature and pattern of Asian migration; official attitudes to Asian settlement; the reactions and perceptions of the British people; the responses of the Asians themselves and their social, cultural and political lives in Britain. This imaginative and detailed investigation asks what it would have been like for Asians to live in Britain, in the heart of an imperial metropolis, and documents the anti-colonial struggle by Asians and their allies in the UK. It is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the many different communities that make up contemporary Britain."--Pub. desc.

Subjects

• East Indians
• Asians
• History
• Großbritannien
• Great Britain > Ethnic relations
• Immigranten
• Aziaten
• Indischer Einwanderer
• Geschichte
• Asiaten
• Ethnic relations
• East Indians > Great Britain > History
• Asians > Great Britain > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [434]-453) and index.

Contents

A long presence -- Early arrivals, 1600-1830s -- A community in the making, 1830s-1914 -- Through Indian eyes -- Parliamentarians, revolutionaries and suffragettes -- Indians in the First World War -- Citizens or aliens? -- Lascar activism in Britain, 1920-45 -- Asians in Britain, 1919-47 -- Radical voices -- Contributions in the Second World War -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0745313736
• 9780745313733
• 0745313787
• 9780745313788

LCCN

2001005307

OCLC

• ocm47973258
• 47973258
• SCSB-14027613

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library