South Asian Resistances in Britain, 1858 - 1947

Sumita Mukherjee is a historian of South Asia and the British Empire. She is a post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University, UK, where she received her doctorate. She is the author of Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (Routledge 2009) Rehana Ahmed is a specialist in contemporary and twentieth century British Asian and South Asian literature and culture. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Open University, UK, and is the editor of the volume Walking a Tightrope: New Writing from Asian Britain (Macmillan 2004)

This fine volume engagingly reveals the experiences and aspirations of diverse South Asian men and women who lived and worked in Britain during the British Raj. Highlighting the varied nature of Asian resistance to racism and other forms of oppression, the editors and contributors present us with the latest insights and developments of the field.

• 1. Introduction (Rehana Ahmed and Sumita Mukherjee); 2. 'Horrorism' in the heart of empire: theorising violence as anti-colonial resistance at India House 1905-1909 (Alex Tickell); 3. The Caxton Hall assassination of Michael O'Dwyer (Florian Stadtler); 4. Censorship and the Indian soldiers in Britain during the First World War (Prabhjot Parmar); 5. Littoral struggles, liminal lives - Indian merchant seamen's resistances (Georgie Wemyss); 6. Ghulam Rasul's travels - migration, recolonization and resistance in inter-war Britain (Laura Tabili); 7. Class, cosmopolitanism and narratives of resistance - the Irish League and its East End branch (Rehana Ahmed); 8. Indo-Irish resistances in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s (Kate O'Malley); 9. Herabai Tata and Sophia Duleep Singh - suffragette resistances for India and Britain 1910-1920 (Sumita Mukherjee); 10. Royal relationships as avenues of social resistance - the case of Duleep Singh and Abdul Karim (A. Martin Wainwright); 11. Epilogue (Antoinette Burton).