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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823606403321

Autore

Visram Rozina <1939->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-78371-557-X

1-84964-029-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (497 p.)

Disciplina

941/.004914

Soggetti

Asians - Great Britain - History

East Indians - Great Britain - History

Great Britain Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- 214 -- 216 -- Alipore Conspiracy case [1908] 282 -- All-India Muslim League -- 148 -- London Branch,  148 -- UK Branch,  257 -- All-India Seafarers' Federation 252-3 -- All-India Seamen's Federation -- passim -- 219 -- 229 -- 230 -- 237-42 passim -- 245-8 -- 250 -- All-India Trades Union Congress -- 240 -- 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 -- 219 -- 239-53 passim -- 264 -- 272 -- 326 -- 349 -- 406 n.96 -- Allingham,  Helen 53 -- Ally,  Syed Tofussil -- 243 -- 256-7 -- 257 -- 415 n.7 -- Amato,  Donna 291 -- Ameer Ali,  Syed -- 146-9 -- 160 -- 298 -- called to the Bar,  146 -- Ameer Ali,  Toric 149 -- Amery,  Leopold Stennett -- 272 -- 290 -- 334 -- 338 -- 339 -- Amos,  Mrs Sheldon 96 -- Ampthill,  Arthur Oliver Villiers -- 2nd Baron -- 185 -- Amrit Bazaar Patrika 288 -- Amritsar massacre [1919] -- 196 -- 272 -- 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 -- 257 -- 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 -- 185 -- 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 -- 334 -- 335 -- Attlee,  Clement Richard -- 303 -- 319 -- 329 -- 334 -- 335 -- Auchinleck,  Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre 345 -- Auden,  W.H. 289 -- Auriol,  John Lewis 12 -- Australia,  strikes and imprisonment of lascars -- 234 -- 241 -- Awadth,  Nawab Eckbaloo Dowlah,  Prince of 124 -- Awister,  Dr 41 -- Ayahs -- 2 -- 6 -- 7 -- 10 -- 11 -- 44 -- 45 -- 50-4 -- 58 -- 110 -- 357 -- 361 n.2 -- British view of,  53 -- Ayahs' Home -- 11 -- 51-3 -- 373 n.24 -- Ayyar,  A.S.P. -- 275 -- 280 -- 298 -- 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 -- 280 -- Baksh,  



Khuda [basket-maker] 65 -- Baldwin,  Stanley [afterwards 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley] 314 -- Balfour,  Arthur James -- 1st earl of -- 94 -- 101 -- Banarji,  Dr 295 -- Bande Mataram -- 153 -- 160 -- Banerji,  Ajoy 317 -- Bannerjea,  Surendranath -- 127 -- 131 -- 160 -- Bans,  Bishen Singh 263 -- Baptiseter,  John 23.

baptisms,  of Indians brought to Britain -- 1 -- 2 -- 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 -- 268 -- 270 -- 271 -- 418 n.46 -- Bath,  Asians in -- nabobs in,  5 -- nabobs in,  5 -- nabobs in,  9 -- nabobs in,  9 -- Batlivala,  Bhicoo -- 283 -- 324 -- 334 -- 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 -- 60 -- 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 -- 338 -- 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 -- 298 -- Bhattacharya,  Asha 297 -- Bhattacharya,  Dr [factory doctor] 79 -- Bhimani,  Nazlin 291 -- Bhopal,  Begum -- 104 -- 112 -- Bhore,  Mary 118 -- Bhose,  Revd E.B. -- 60 -- 61-2 -- 64 -- Bhownagree,  Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee -- 137 -- 138 -- 139-46 -- 149 -- 160 -- 298 -- 312 -- 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] -- 104 -- 258 -- 297-8 -- Bhuyan,  Surya Kumar 86 -- Bibliophile bookshop 278-9 -- Bilgrami,  Syed Ali 87 -- Bimbi [ayah] -- 45 -- 364 n.35 -- Bimbi [servant] 12 -- Binyon,  Lawrence 289 -- Birdwood,  Sir George -- 111 -- 139 -- Birkenhead,  Frederick Edwin Smith -- 1st Earl of -- 178 -- 215 -- 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 -- 58 -- 60 -- 196 -- 197 -- 203 -- 207 -- 217 -- 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 -- 297 -- 349 -- Bombay -- 3 -- 26 -- 55 -- 61 -- 62 -- 65 -- 85 -- 86 -- 124 -- 126 -- 133 -- 137 -- 152 -- 170 -- 186 -- 189 -- 198 -- Bombay Association 126 -- Bombay Chronicle -- 314 -- 315 -- Bombay Congress 153 -- Bombay Corporation 315 -- Bombay Emporium [Grafton Street,  London -- afterwards Bombay International] -- afterwards Bombay International],  279 -- afterwards Bombay International],  279 -- afterwards Bombay International],  355 -- afterwards Bombay International],  355 -- Bombay Legislative Council 126 -- Bombay Parsi Cricket Club 97 -- Bombay Seamen's Union --



229 -- 230 -- Bombay University -- 79 -- 96 -- 139 -- Bonarjee,  Lt Stephen 292 -- Bonarjee,  Revd Pitt 292.

Bonnerjee [afterwards Blair],  Nolini [Nelly] Héloise.

Sommario/riassunto

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