Asian Britain
Published on 7. October 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-908906-11-3 (ISBN)
Description
South Asians have lived in Britain for centuries. From the first trade conducted between the two nations along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual exchange of cultures continues to flourish today. Asian Britain vividly charts Britain's process of coming to terms with the historic realities of its culturally diverse past and present.
This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean and East Africa. Personalities from the arts, business, politics and sport appear alongside the pioneers - the first female law student at Oxford, the first Indian RAF pilots, the first Asian MP - and of equal significance are the experiences and history of the ordinary immigrants.
This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragist movement and the different phases of historic settlement of Asian migrants from the subcontinent, the Caribbean and East Africa. Personalities from the arts, business, politics and sport appear alongside the pioneers - the first female law student at Oxford, the first Indian RAF pilots, the first Asian MP - and of equal significance are the experiences and history of the ordinary immigrants.
Reviews / Votes
'Fascinating - [This] breathtaking book - sets out to chart a fascinating and important untold social history.' Daily Mail 'Celebrates the long, and sometimes surprising, history of Asian people in the UK - Susheila Nasta's Asian Britain records an untold social history - Poignant' GuardianMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Saqi Books
Illustrations
286 b/w photographs; 286 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 266 mm
Width: 222 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
1278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908906-11-3 (9781908906113)
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Florian Stadtler was an Open University Research Fellow (2008-2013) on two AHRC-funded projects investigating the cultural, social and political history of Asian Britain. He has published on South Asian cinema, history and writing, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter.
Susheila Nasta MBE is editor-in-chief of the internationally distinguished literary magazine, Wasafiri, which she founded in 1984. Currently Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University, she has published widely on the black and South Asian diasporas. Since 2007, Nasta has been Director of a major interdisciplinary research project on Asian Britain. Her publications include Asian Britain: A Photographic History (The Westbourne Press), Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain, Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk and India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections. She lives in London.
Susheila Nasta MBE is editor-in-chief of the internationally distinguished literary magazine, Wasafiri, which she founded in 1984. Currently Professor of Modern Literature at the Open University, she has published widely on the black and South Asian diasporas. Since 2007, Nasta has been Director of a major interdisciplinary research project on Asian Britain. Her publications include Asian Britain: A Photographic History (The Westbourne Press), Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain, Writing Across Worlds: Contemporary Writers Talk and India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections. She lives in London.