Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A Long Presence -- 2. Early Arrivals, 1600-1830s -- 3. A Community in the Making 1830s-1914 -- 4. Through Indian Eyes -- 5. Parliamentarians, Revolutionaries and Suffragettes -- 6. Indians in the First World War -- 7. Citizens or Aliens? -- 8. Lascar Activism in Britain, 1920-45 -- 9. Asians in Britain, 1919-47 -- 10. Radical Voices -- 11. Contributions in the Second World War -- 12. Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Abbas, Dr G., 271 -- Abdoolah, James, 65 -- Abdoolah, Jan 66 -- Abdoollah, Prof. Syed 87 -- Abdulah [lascar] 27 -- Aberdeen University -- 36 -- 288 -- Aberdeen, Indian pedlars in 261 -- Abrahams, Peter 330 -- Adam, William Patrick 123 -- Adams, Caroline 281 -- Adams, Frederick James -- 217 -- 330 -- Adeen, Ameen 65 -- Adenese seafarers in Britain -- 203 -- 204 -- 206 -- 214 -- 215 -- 271 -- Admiralty 244 -- advertisements -- by Indians seeking work, 10 -- for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 7 -- for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 13 -- for recapture of runaway Indian servants, 36 -- Africans and people of African descent -- in Britain, 8 -- in Britain, 12 -- in Britain, 20-1 -- in Britain, 23 -- in Britain, 30 -- in Britain, 59 -- in Britain, 64 -- in Britain, 68 -- in Britain, 198 -- in Britain, 201 -- in Britain, 203 -- in Britain, 206 -- in Britain, 216 -- in Britain, 218-19 -- Aga Khan -- 148 -- 160 -- 298 -- Ahmad, Aziz 62-4 -- Ahmad, Fyez 238-9 -- Ahmadiya Mosque, Putney 298 -- Ahmed, Mrs Mahomed 257 -- Ahmed, Rafiuddin -- 47 -- 48 -- Aikin, Lucy 34 -- Air Ministry Directorate of Air Intelligence 351.

Akbar II, Shah, Mughal Emperor 34 -- Akbar-i-Am 63 -- Akbari i Jang 176 -- Alam, Shah, Mughal Emperor 33 -- Aldred, Guy Alfred 154 -- Alexandra, Princess of Wales [afterwards Queen-Consort] 45 -- Ali, Aftab -- 219 -- 229-30 -- 237 -- 240 -- 241 -- 250 -- 252 -- Ali, Ayub -- 257 -- 264 -- 297 -- 415 n.7 -- Ali, Dusé Mohamed 136 -- Ali, Fazal 261 -- Ali, Hurmat 45 -- Ali, Karim 124 -- Ali, Mir Azfal 124 -- Ali, Mosharaf 280-1 -- Ali, Muktar 256 -- Ali, Nawab -- 259 -- 268 -- Ali, Yusuf 338 -- Aliens Act [1906] -- 57 -- 205 -- Aliens Restriction Order [1920] -- 208-11 passim -- 213 -- 214 -- 216 -- Alipore Conspiracy case [1908] 282 -- All-India Muslim League -- 148 -- London Branch, 148 -- UK Branch, 257 -- All-India Seafarers' Federation 252-3 -- All-India Seamen's Federation -- passim -- 219 -- 229 -- 230 -- 237-42 passim -- 245-8 -- 250 -- All-India Trades Union Congress -- 240 -- 303 -- 307 -- 314 -- 314-15 -- All-India Union of Seamen Centred in Great Britain [All-India Seamen's Centre] 249-51 passim -- All-Max Coffee House 31-2 -- Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford 77-8 -- Allen, Sheila 298 -- Alley, Surat -- 219 -- 239-53 passim -- 264 -- 272 -- 326 -- 349 -- 406 n.96 -- Allingham, Helen 53 -- Ally, Syed Tofussil -- 243 -- 256-7 -- 257 -- 415 n.7 -- Amato, Donna 291 -- Ameer Ali, Syed -- 146-9 -- 160 -- 298 -- called to the Bar, 146 -- Ameer Ali, Toric 149 -- Amery, Leopold Stennett -- 272 -- 290 -- 334 -- 338 -- 339 -- Amos, Mrs Sheldon 96 -- Ampthill, Arthur Oliver Villiers -- 2nd Baron -- 185 -- Amrit Bazaar Patrika 288 -- Amritsar massacre [1919] -- 196 -- 272 -- 300 -- 322 -- Anand, Mulk Raj -- 174 -- 289 -- 324 -- 360 -- Letters on India [ 324 -- Anchor Line -- 197 -- 235 -- Anderson, Lady Lydia 293 -- Anderson, Mrs Elizabeth Garrett 166 -- Angadi, Ayana D. ['Raj Hansa'] 290 -- Anglo-Boer War -- 60 -- 79.

308 -- Anglo-Indians -- 140 -- 147 -- 210 -- 211 -- Anson, Capt. the Hon, George 80-2 -- Anthony, Domingo 23 -- Anti-Corn Law League 129 -- Antonio, Emanuel 27 -- Arabs in Britain -- 256 -- 257 -- 266 -- seafarers, 198 -- seafarers, 201-7 passim -- seafarers, 216 -- seafarers, 219 -- Archer, John Richard -- 138 -- 308 -- 310-11 -- architecture, British, Indian influence -- 5 -- 42 -- 45 -- 355 -- Army Council -- 185 -- 186 -- Arnall, John 424-5 n.20 -- Arnold, W.T. 90 -- Ashe, Thomas 301 -- Ashraf, A.M. 262 -- Asia 62 -- Asian and African Film Artistes' Association 259 -- Asian Music Circle 290 -- Asiatic Rest 60 -- Asquith, Herbert Henry -- 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith -- 159 -- Atholl, Sir John James Hugh Henry Stewart-Murray -- 7th Duke of -- 101 -- Atlantic Charter -- 334 -- 335 -- Attlee, Clement Richard -- 303 -- 319 -- 329 -- 334 -- 335 -- Auchinleck, Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre 345 -- Auden, W.H. 289 -- Auriol, John Lewis 12 -- Australia, strikes and imprisonment of lascars -- 234 -- 241 -- Awadth, Nawab Eckbaloo Dowlah, Prince of 124 -- Awister, Dr 41 -- Ayahs -- 2 -- 6 -- 7 -- 10 -- 11 -- 44 -- 45 -- 50-4 -- 58 -- 110 -- 357 -- 361 n.2 -- British view of, 53 -- Ayahs' Home -- 11 -- 51-3 -- 373 n.24 -- Ayyar, A.S.P. -- 275 -- 280 -- 298 -- Azad Hind 270 -- Baig, Sir Abbas Ali 298 -- Baijnath, Lala -- 105 -- 111 -- 115 -- 116 -- Baines, C.E. 204 -- Baker, Capt. 8 -- Baker, Godfrey 38 -- Baker, Ora Ray 349 -- Bakhsh, Mohammed 265 -- Baksh, Bibi Faiz, Begum of Oudh -- 35 -- 280 -- Baksh, Khuda [basket-maker] 65 -- Baldwin, Stanley [afterwards 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley] 314 -- Balfour, Arthur James -- 1st earl of -- 94 -- 101 -- Banarji, Dr 295 -- Bande Mataram -- 153 -- 160 -- Banerji, Ajoy 317 -- Bannerjea, Surendranath -- 127 -- 131 -- 160 -- Bans, Bishen Singh 263 -- Baptiseter, John 23.

baptisms, of Indians brought to Britain -- 1 -- 2 -- 6-7 -- 12 -- Barnes, Alfred 346 -- Baroda, Gaekwar of 164 -- Baroda, Maharani of 164 -- Barrow, Gen. Sir Edmund 187 -- Barton-on-Sea convalescent camp -- 181 -- 188 -- 190 -- Barwell, Richard 5 -- Basra, Thakur Singh -- 268 -- 270 -- 271 -- 418 n.46 -- Bath, Asians in -- nabobs in, 5 -- nabobs in, 5 -- nabobs in, 9 -- nabobs in, 9 -- Batlivala, Bhicoo -- 283 -- 324 -- 334 -- 337 -- Battersea -- 308-11 -- 312 -- 313 -- 425 n.28 -- Labour and Trades Council, 308-10 -- Battersea Labour League 310 -- Battle of Britain, Indian pilots in 345 -- Baty, Jim 283 -- Bayly, C.A. 128 -- Beck, Adolf 82 -- Beg, Wuzeer 87 -- Belden, Revd A.D. 326-7 -- Belfast Newsletter 13 -- Belfast, Indian pedlar in 260 -- Bell, Mrs Evans 135 -- Bell, Thomas 316 -- Belli, John 35 -- Benares, Maharaja of 355 -- Bengal and Bengalis -- 4 -- 8-16 passim -- 22 -- 33 -- 36-8 passim -- 54 -- 60 -- 61 -- 83 -- 84 -- 87 -- 88 -- 96 -- Bengal Artillery 36 -- Bengal Board of Trade 26 -- Bengal Legislative Council 147 -- Bengal Mariners' Union 229 -- Bennett [Benoît], Ally Bux [Charles Alexander] 35 -- Bennett [Benoît], Banu Jain [baptised Ann] 35 -- Bennett [Benoît], Hélène 35-6 -- Benson, Lt R.L. 180 -- Besant, Annie -- 305 -- 320 -- 321 -- Bettany, G.T. 77 -- Bevin, Ernest -- 338 -- 341 -- Bhabha, Dr S.D. -- 90 -- 151 -- Bhai, Dada [lodging-house keeper] 66 -- Bhandari, Dr P.C. 298 -- Bhargava, M.L. 297 -- Bhatia, Ganpat Rai 281 -- Bhatt, Dr K.S. -- 282 -- 298 -- Bhattacharya, Asha 297 -- Bhattacharya, Dr [factory doctor] 79 -- Bhimani, Nazlin 291 -- Bhopal, Begum -- 104 -- 112 -- Bhore, Mary 118 -- Bhose, Revd E.B. -- 60 -- 61-2 -- 64 -- Bhownagree, Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee -- 137 -- 138 -- 139-46 -- 149 -- 160 -- 298 -- 312 -- Indian interests, 144.

queries treatment of Indians in South Africa, queries aspects of mil -- queries treatment of Indians in South Africa, 144 -- Bhumgara, F.J. 234 -- Bhupindra Dharamsala [Sikh Gurdwara] -- 104 -- 258 -- 297-8 -- Bhuyan, Surya Kumar 86 -- Bibliophile bookshop 278-9 -- Bilgrami, Syed Ali 87 -- Bimbi [ayah] -- 45 -- 364 n.35 -- Bimbi [servant] 12 -- Binyon, Lawrence 289 -- Birdwood, Sir George -- 111 -- 139 -- Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith -- 1st Earl of -- 178 -- 215 -- 316 -- Birmingham -- Asians, 66 -- Asians, 67 -- Asians, 79 -- Asians, 245 -- Asians, 273 -- Asians, 324 -- Indian visitors, 112 -- Birmingham Indian Association 297 -- Bishop, Emily Jane 71 -- Bishop, Reg 305 -- Bishop, William Avery 173 -- Black Poor 18-25 -- Blackman, Peter 259 -- Board of Trade -- 56 -- 58 -- 60 -- 196 -- 197 -- 203 -- 207 -- 217 -- 225-6 -- 228 -- 235-38 -- and discrimination against Indian seafarers, 220 -- passim, 241 -- Boigne, Gen. Benoît de 35 -- Bokanky, Doctor [street herbalist] 66 -- Bolla [lascar] 26-7 -- Bolton Chamber of Trade 266 -- Bolton, Indian pedlars in 265-6 -- Bomanji, Sir Dhunjibhoy and Lady -- 297 -- 349 -- Bombay -- 3 -- 26 -- 55 -- 61 -- 62 -- 65 -- 85 -- 86 -- 124 -- 126 -- 133 -- 137 -- 152 -- 170 -- 186 -- 189 -- 198 -- Bombay Association 126 -- Bombay Chronicle -- 314 -- 315 -- Bombay Congress 153 -- Bombay Corporation 315 -- Bombay Emporium [Grafton Street, London -- afterwards Bombay International] -- afterwards Bombay International], 279 -- afterwards Bombay International], 279 -- afterwards Bombay International], 355 -- afterwards Bombay International], 355 -- Bombay Legislative Council 126 -- Bombay Parsi Cricket Club 97 -- Bombay Seamen's Union -- 229 -- 230 -- Bombay University -- 79 -- 96 -- 139 -- Bonarjee, Lt Stephen 292 -- Bonarjee, Revd Pitt 292.

Bonnerjee [afterwards Blair], Nolini [Nelly] Héloise.