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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Although the formation of groups and associations among Indian people in Britain is often seen as the product of postwar labour migration to this country Indians have in fact been visiting and living in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards and when movements for Indian independence arose in the nineteenth century Indians here had a very important contribution to make. It is the purpose of this pamphlet to examine the connection between Indians and Bristol with special reference to the remarka- ble careers of two men: Raja Rammohan Roy who died in the city in 1833 and Dr. Sukhsagar Datta who lived and worked in Bristol from just before the First World War until his death in 1967.1 As Rozina Visram has shown Indians began to appear in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards as domestic servants soldiers and sailors but in the nineteenth century those who came to Bristol were primarily drawn from middle classes. The East India Company had introduced a wide range of economic politi- cal educational and cultural changes into eighteenth-century Bengal. (LL)