People from India have been coming to Britain - risking their lives
in voyages across the 'Kala Pani' (Black waters) - since the
beginning of the seventeenth century. Their story has both grand
historical sweep and the intimate drama of individual lives. They
came as sailors, servants, wives, merchants, ambassadors and
scholars, sometimes for betterment or profit, sometimes for
adventure, and sometimes for justice. Occasionally, they became
famous, like the Bengali Muslim calling himself 'John Morgan', a
renowned animal trainer, or Sake Dean Mahomed (1759-1851),
'shampooing surgeon' to the Royal Family. Often they remained
anonymous. After the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857, the South Asian
presence in Britain, more visible than before, was also more
sharply defined. 'Brown Victorians', now to be found in the docks
and factories, universities and theatres, law courts and hospitals
- and eventually Parliament - played an increasingly important role
in British life. Through two world wars and the independence of
India (and Pakistan), their importance grew further. From the
1950s, increased immigration swelled the numbers of South Asians in
Britain, who experienced both racism and economic hardship as they
strove to express their entrepreneurial spirit and assert their
religious identity. More recently still, growing radicalism among
British-Asian youth has led to new interest in the South-Asian
community, its spirit, heritage and achievements. The narrative is
chronologically structured, beginning in 1600 and coming up to the
present day. After an introduction outlining the major themes and
setting them in context, eight chapters examine key periods in
detail: 1) 'Earliest Asian Visitors andSettlers during the
Pre-colonial Period, c. 1600-1750s', 2) 'Asian Arrivals during
Early Colonialism, 1750s-1790s', 3) 'Widening and Deepening of the
South Asian Presence in Britain, 1790s-1830s', 4) 'South Asian
Settlers and Transient Networks and Communities in Britain,
1830s-1857' (all Michael Fisher), 5) 'Brown Victorians, 1857-1901',
6) 'From Empire to Decolonisation, 1901-1947' (Shompa Lahiri), 7)
'Migrating to the Mother Country: South Asian Settlement and the
Post-war boom 1947-80' and 8) 'Riding the storm of Thatcherism and
Re-inventing Lives and Aspirations' (Shinder Thandi).
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