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South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947 by Rehana Ahmed; Sumita Mukherjee is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume offers an alternative way of conceiving the history of Britain by excavating and exploring the numerous ways in which South Asians in Britain engaged in radical discourse and political activism from 1858 to 1947, before their more permanent migration and settlement. The book focuses on a tumultuous period of resistance against the backdrop of high imperialism under the reign of Victoria, through the turmoil of two World Wars and Partition in 1947. As well as addressing resistances against empire and hierarchies of race, the authors investigate how South Asians in Britain mobilized to campaign for women's suffrage (the Indian princess Sophia Duleep Singh), for example, or for an international socialism (the Communist MP Shapurji Saklatvala), thereby contributing to and complicating notions of freedom, equality and justice. This volume reframes these pioneers as social and political agents and activists and shows how Britain's contemporary multicultural society is rooted in their mobilization for equality of citizenship.

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Author

Rehana Ahmed; Sumita Mukherjee

Publisher

Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441155146

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities