Britain's Anglo-Indians: The Invisibility of Assimilation
Despite the fact that India’s Anglo-Indians migrated en masse following Independence in 1947 and have spent almost 70 years as a settler-community, they remain relatively unknown in the United Kingdom and rarely counted among South Asia’s diaspora. This seminar will address their trajectory from immigrants who faced hostility and rejection in the Post-World War II era to a well-established and well-accepted ethnic minority in the multi-cultural environment of contemporary Britain. It will also analyse reasons for their ‘invisibility’ and the cultural erasure this assimilation has engendered.
Date:
17 January 2017, 14:00 (Tuesday, 1st week, Hilary 2017)
Venue:
St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details:
Fellows' Dining Room
Speaker:
Rochelle Almeida (NYU)
Organising department:
Asian Studies Centre
Organiser:
Dr Faisal Devji (St Antony's)
Organiser contact email address:
asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
None
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Maxime Dargaud-Fons
