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

Front Matter....Pages i-xxv
Introduction....Pages 1-11
The Zigzag Lines of Tentative Connection: Indian-British Contacts in the Late Nineteenth Century....Pages 12-27
Writing Empire, Fighting War: India, Great Britain and the First World War....Pages 28-45
Tracing the Legacy of an Experimental Generation: Three Iconic Indian Travellers in 1890s London....Pages 46-63
Forging Global Networks in the Imperial Era: Atiya Fyzee in Edwardian London....Pages 64-79
‘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....Pages 80-95
Crafting Connections: The India Society and the Formation of an Imperial Artistic Network in Early Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 96-114
Dialoguing with Empire: The Literary and Political Rhetoric of Sarojini Naidu....Pages 115-133
‘Best Sellers’: India, Indians and the British Reading Public....Pages 134-148
‘A Flute of Praise’: Indian Theatre in Britain in the Early Twentieth Century....Pages 149-163
Calling from London, Talking to India: South Asian Networks at the BBC and the Case of G. V. Desani....Pages 164-178
‘Civilizing Sabu of India’: Redefining the White Man’s Burden in Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 179-193
Back Matter....Pages 207-221