"(This book) demonstrates that the vision of Britain in its Imperial heyday, celebrated by many historians, as a cosmopolitan haven, ever open to the enterprising immigrant, is a white idea of things." -- Times Literary Supplement"Visram ("Ayahs, Lascars, and Princes, 1986; Indians in Britain, 1987; The History of the Asian Community in Britain," 1995), whose work must be seen as based on the South Asian diasporic ideology, seeks to demolish the idea that Anglo-Saxon societies (British, US, Canadian, etc.) have core ...
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"(This book) demonstrates that the vision of Britain in its Imperial heyday, celebrated by many historians, as a cosmopolitan haven, ever open to the enterprising immigrant, is a white idea of things." -- Times Literary Supplement"Visram ("Ayahs, Lascars, and Princes, 1986; Indians in Britain, 1987; The History of the Asian Community in Britain," 1995), whose work must be seen as based on the South Asian diasporic ideology, seeks to demolish the idea that Anglo-Saxon societies (British, US, Canadian, etc.) have core cultures that are highly syncretic. As such, South Asians claim to havemade an ongoing contribution to these Western societies and therefore seek an equal place in them. The first Indians appeared in England early in the 17th century, most of them sailors, with servants the second largest group. In the 19th century, professionals, mostly lawyers and doctors, began to appear, and the community is now varied and broad. This book can best be consulted as a reference work, and could be used with G. Bhatti's "Asian Children at Home and at School" (1999), as it contains a plethora of details and a number of mini biographies of little-known "community heroes," such as Noor Inayat Khan, who became the first female wireless operator to be infiltrated into Nazi-occupied France and was shot by the Gestapo in 1944. General collections and upper-d." -- CHOICEPraise for Rozina Visram's previous pioneering study of Asians in Britain, "Ayahs, Lascars and Princes": "A lively- and timely- survey of British Indian history." Salman Rushdie"Rozina Visram's excellent book does a great deal to explain how the idea of white supremacy lingers." Hanif Kureishi
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