Balti Britain

Ziauddin Sadar

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: GRANTA BOOKS

Publication Date : 01/09/2008

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

Telling the history of Asians in Britain, their arrival in 1614 to the extremists in 2006. Sardar travels across the country, experiencing the diversity in communities and questioning whether multiculturalism is an impossible dream.

Publisher's description:

A memoir of Sardar who travels to the main Asian communities in the UK, to Leicester and Birmingham, Glasgow and Bradford, Tower Hamlets and Oldham. It tells the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in Britain in 1614, through the entagled days of colonialism, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006.

ISBN: 9781862079311