India in Britain: South Asian Networks and Connections, 1858-1950

List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Preface: The Importance of Strangers; N.Sahgal Introduction; S.Nasta The Zig Zag Lines of Tentative Connection: Indian-British Contacts in the Late Nineteenth Century; E.Boehmer Writing Empire, Fighting War: India, Great Britain and the First World War; S.Das Tracing the Legacy of an Experimental Generation: Three Iconic Travellers in 1890s London; A.Bubb Forging Global Networks in the Imperial Era: Atiya Fyzee in Edwardian London; S.Lambert-Hurley 'A Mosque in London worthy of the tradition of Islam and worthy of the capital of the British Empire': The Struggle to Create Muslim Space, 1910-1944; H.Ansari Crafting Connections: The India Society and the Formation of an Imperial Artistic Network in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; S.V.Turner Dialoguing with Empire: The Literary and Political Rhetoric of Sarojini Naidu; C.Lokuge 'Best Sellers': India, Indians and the British Reading Public; M.Lahiri 'A Flute of Praise': Indian Theatre in Britain in the Early Twentieth Century; C.Chambers Calling From London, Talking to India: South Asian Networks at the BBC and the case of G.V. Desani; E.Bainbridge & F.Stadtler 'Civilising Sabu of India': Redefining the White Man's Burden in Twentieth-Century Britain; J.Gold Connective Tissue: South Asians and the Making of Postcolonial Histories in Britain; A.Burton Select Bibliography Index