Asian Britain: A Photographic History - Softcover

Susheila Nasta; Florian Stadtler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908906111 ISBN 13: 9781908906113

Publisher: The Westbourne Press, 2013

Synopsis

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. A wonderful book celebrating the fascinating history of Asian people in the UK. This paperback book has 320 pages and measures: 27 x 22 x 2cm.

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Review:

'Celebrates the long, and sometimes surprising, history of Asian people in the UK ... Susheila Nasta s Asian Britain records an untold social history ... Poignant.' Guardian

'Fascinating - [This] breathtaking book sets out to chart a fascinating and important untold social history.' Daily Mail

'[Susheila Nasta's] new book, Asian Britain: A Photographic History is much in keeping with her earlier work, over three hundred pages of beautifully reproduced, often rare, illustrations with an accompanying explanatory text, introduced by BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal ... There is much here for both the student of British colonial and social history and for the general reader; the book doubles neatly as a source book for the former and an attractive coffee table book for the latter ... The historical record that Nasta illustrates is longer than most of us realise. Her book contains fascinating portraits of Indians who settled in Britain from the 18th Century onwards, whether as families or servants of returning British nabobs, as sailors lascars on British ships, or as enterprising individuals, such as Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened Mahomed's Vapour Baths in Brighton in 1821 and became King George IV's shampooing surgeon ... A timely new account.' --Asian Review of Books

'[Susheila Nasta s] new book, Asian Britain: A Photographic History is much in keeping with her earlier work, over three hundred pages of beautifully reproduced, often rare, illustrations with an accompanying explanatory text, introduced by BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal ... There is much here for both the student of British colonial and social history and for the general reader; the book doubles neatly as a source book for the former and an attractive coffee table book for the latter ... The historical record that Nasta illustrates is longer than most of us realise. Her book contains fascinating portraits of Indians who settled in Britain from the 18th Century onwards, whether as families or servants of returning British nabobs, as sailors lascars on British ships, or as enterprising individuals, such as Sake Dean Mahomed, who opened Mahomed s Vapour Baths in Brighton in 1821 and became King George IV s shampooing surgeon ... A timely new account.' --Asian Review of Books

About the Author:

Susheila Nasta MBE is editor-in-chief of the internationally distinguished literary magazine, Wasafiri. 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.

Florian Stadtler is Lecturer in Global Literature at the University of Exeter. He has published on South Asian cinema, history and writing.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Westbourne Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908906111
• ISBN 13: 9781908906113
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320