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    Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

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    ISBN: 9780745313733
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    AuthorVisram, Rozina
    Pub Date12/04/2002
    BindingPaperback
    Pages504
    Publisher: PLUTO PRESS LTD
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    A groundbreaking history of Asian settlement in Britain from 1700 to the present day

    This is a comprehensive history 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.



    Rozina 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.