Visram, Rozina,

Asians in Britain : 400 years of history / Rozina Visram. - London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002. - xii, 488 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

1 A Long Presence 1
2 Early Arrivals, 1600-1830s 3
3 A Community in the Making, 1830s-1914 44
4 Through Indian Eyes 105
5 Parliamentarians, Revolutionaries and Suffragettes 123
6 Indians in the First World War 169
7 Citizens or Aliens? 196
8 Lascar Activism in Britain, 1920-45 225
9 Asians in Britain, 1919-47 254
10 Radical Voices 300
11 Contributions in the Second World War 341
12 Conclusions 354

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Asians--History.--Great Britain
East Indians--History.--Great Britain


Great Britain--Ethnic relations.

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