Balti Britain: a provocative journey through Asian Britain.
Sardar, Ziauddin (2009) Balti Britain: a provocative journey through Asian Britain. Granta Books. ISBN 9781847080820. [Book]
Abstract
Sardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his own life, describing his carefree childhood in Pakistan, his family's emigration to racist 1950s Britain, and his adulthood straddling two cultures. Along the way he asks: are arranged marriages a good thing? Does the term 'Asian' obscure more than it conveys? Do vindaloo and balti actually exist? And is multiculturalism an impossible dream?
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Law > Criminology and Sociology |
| Item ID: | 8244 |
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| Depositing User: | Devika Mohan |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2011 06:17 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2016 14:23 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/8244 |
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