Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1317415337
People from the Indian sub-continent have been in Britain since the end of the seventeenth century. The presence of princes and maharajahs is well documented but this book, first published in 1986, was the first account of the ordinary people in Britain. This book will be of interest to students of history.
Author : Diane Robinson-Dunn
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2006-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719073281
This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam.
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Tanika Gupta
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1350428590
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At East London's Tilbury Docks, Rani Das and Abdul Karim step ashore after the long voyage from India. One has to battle a society who deems her a second-class citizen; the other forges an astonishing entanglement with the ageing Queen Victoria who finds herself enchanted by stories of an India over which she rules, but has never seen. Through narrative, music and song, The Empress blends the true story of Queen Victoria's controversial relationship with her Indian servant and 'Munshi' (teacher), Abdul Karim, with the experiences of Indian ayahs who came to Britain during the 19th century. With private romance being mapped onto world history, the action cuts between the ship and different royal residences, offering bright contrasts as well as surprising affinities. In doing so, the play uncovers remarkable unknown stories of 19th-century Britain and charts the growth of Indian nationalism and the romantic proclivities of one of Britain's most surprising monarchs. This revised edition was published to coincide with the revival at the RSC in summer 2023.
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release :
Category : East Indians
ISBN : 9781317415329
People from the Indian sub-continent have been in Britain since the end of the seventeenth century. The presence of princes and maharajahs is well documented but this book, first published in 1986, was the first account of the ordinary people in Britain. This book will be of interest to students of history.
Author : Aaron Jaffer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1783270381
Cases of mutiny and other forms of protest are used to reveal full and interesting details of lascar shipboard life.
Author : Rozina Visram
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 28,8 MB
Release : 2002-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745313733
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.
Author : C. L. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521719682
The first extended study of black and Asian writing in Britain, now updated and available in paperback.
Author : Humayun Ansari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0190935022
Muslims constitute Britain's second largest religious grouping, and writing about their experiences has found a new audience in recent years-though not always through a positive lens. But a proper historical treatment of their arrival, settlement and establishment had been conspicuously absent until Humayun Ansari's seminal work, reissued here in an updated edition. "The Infidel Within" draws together rich archival research and first-hand experience into a broad, integrated history of the Muslim presence in Britain. Among the topics addressed are migration and settlement in Britain before 1945, the evolution of a British Muslim identity, Muslim women and families, Muslims and education, and the growing mobilization of Muslims in Britain's political, religious and economic life. This definitive and sympathetic history, brought right up to date, is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand modern Britain.
Author : Alana Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317065689
Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.
