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Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain, 1870-1950

Posted on: Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain,
1870-1950

13-14 September 2010; British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, London

This major international conference marks the culmination of the AHRC-funded project 'Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870-1950', led by the Open University in collaboration with the University of Oxford and King's College London. 'Bharat Britain' will showcase new research from distinguished scholars, curators and writers worldwide. Held in partnership with the British Library, it will explore the manifold ways in which South Asians impacted on the formation of Britain's cultural and political life prior to Independence and Partition in 1947.

Speakers include:

Humayun Ansari, Elleke Boehmer, Antoinette Burton, Mukti Jain Campion, Dominiek Dendooven, Chandani Lokuge, Susheila Nasta, Shyama Perera, Meera Syal and Rozina Visram.

Features:

Opening of panel exhibition 'South Asians Making Britain, 1858-1950', which will then tour the UK.

Launch of online interactive database comprising several hundred entries on South Asians in Britain.

To see the full programme and to register, please go to the Making Britain website

Download the pdf poster and registration form here.

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