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India in Britain

South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950

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  • © 2013

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  1. Susheila Nasta

    1. Open University, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Susheila Nasta
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Zigzag Lines of Tentative Connection: Indian-British Contacts in the Late Nineteenth Century

    • Elleke Boehmer
    Pages 12-27

  4. Writing Empire, Fighting War: India, Great Britain and the First World War

    • Santanu Das
    Pages 28-45

  5. Tracing the Legacy of an Experimental Generation: Three Iconic Indian Travellers in 1890s London

    • Alexander Bubb
    Pages 46-63

  6. Forging Global Networks in the Imperial Era: Atiya Fyzee in Edwardian London

    • Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    Pages 64-79

  7. ‘A Mosque in London worthy of the tradition of Islam and worthy of the capital of the British Empire’: The Struggle to Create Muslim Space, 1910–1944

    • Humayun Ansari
    Pages 80-95

  8. Crafting Connections: The India Society and the Formation of an Imperial Artistic Network in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Sarah Victoria Turner
    Pages 96-114

  9. Dialoguing with Empire: The Literary and Political Rhetoric of Sarojini Naidu

    • Chandani Lokuge
    Pages 115-133

  10. ‘Best Sellers’: India, Indians and the British Reading Public

    • Madhumita Lahiri
    Pages 134-148

  11. ‘A Flute of Praise’: Indian Theatre in Britain in the Early Twentieth Century

    • Colin Chambers
    Pages 149-163

  12. Calling from London, Talking to India: South Asian Networks at the BBC and the Case of G. V. Desani

    • Emma Bainbridge, Florian Stadtler
    Pages 164-178

  13. ‘Civilizing Sabu of India’: Redefining the White Man’s Burden in Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Jacqueline Gold
    Pages 179-193

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 207-221
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About this book

Moving away from orthodox narratives of the Raj and British presence in India, this book examines the significance of the networks and connections that South Asians established on British soil. Looking at the period 1858-1950, it presents readings of cultural history and points to the urgent need to open up the parameters of this field of study.

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'This is indeed an impressive and ground-breaking collection of essays, offering significantly new research, and revealing the important contributions to British culture, society, and history made by Indian immigrants and visitors to Britain prior to World War ll.' - Lyn Innes, Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Open University, UK

    Susheila Nasta

About the editor

SUSHEILA NASTA is Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University, UK and a renowned critic, broadcaster and literary activist. Editor of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing, which she founded in 1984, she has published widely on South Asian Britain. Recent publications include: Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora (Palgrave, 2002); Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk. A photographic history of South Asian Britain is forthcoming with Westbourne Press in 2013. Before joining the OU, she worked at the Universities of London and Cambridge and held several research fellowships overseas. She received an MBE for her services to Black and Asian Literature in 2011.

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