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Welcome
This is the website for the AHRC-funded project Making Britain, a collaborative interdisciplinary venture examining the formative South Asian contribution to Britain’s literary, political and cultural life in the period 1870–1950. Making Britain is concerned with how South Asians were positioning themselves within British society and culture, and with their impact upon various aspects of British life. It aims to trace some of the key links between South Asians and Britons, while also exploring the tensions that arose from their encounters.
Through extensive new archival research, the project seeks to uncover the rich cultural output of this early diasporic community and heighten public awareness of the depth of South Asian contribution to contemporary British life. As well as producing published outputs, and hosting seminars and a public exhibition, the project is creating an annotated database of material written by and relating to South Asians in Britain, which will soon be linked through this website.
For further information about our project, please see the About page.
If you are interested in contributing to our research activities, please see the Events and Contact pages.
‘Voice’, the monthly radio magazine programme in the Eastern Service of the BBC, 1942: (left to right, sitting) Venu Chitale, J. M. Tambimuttu, T. S. Eliot, Una Marson, Mulk Raj Anand, Christopher Pemberton, Narayana Menon; (standing) George Orwell, Nancy Barratt, William Empson. Reproduced with kind permission of the BBC.
