Asian Britain

Susheila Nasta author Florian Stadtler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Saqi Books

Published:7th Oct '13

Should be back in stock very soon

Asian Britain cover

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.

'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' Guardian

ISBN: 9781908906113

Dimensions: 270mm x 220mm x 29mm

Weight: 1286g

320 pages