The Indian population has been travelling to Britain since the beginning of the British rule in India which first started during the 17th century. Yet, Hindus, Sikhs and Indian Muslims’ journey to the UK only reached its peak this last century. During the Fifties, Indian communities started to travel to the UK to escape the…
History of South Asians in Britain is not just post Second World War phenomenon, it reaches as far as 400 years. As Rozina Visram (2002), a leading expert on history of South Asian community in Britain, writes in her excellent account, back in the seventeenth century Indian sailors, the lascars, who crewed the East India…
The 14th and 15th of August 2017 marked a monumental turning point in the history of the Subcontinent. It saw the division of nation with ‘hastily and ineptly’ drawn lines by a man who had never set foot in the region. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to…
Unzela Khan reflects on the need for the Grand Trunk Project, and to find common ground amongst Sikh, Muslim and Hindu communities in the UK.
