Tag: India

Stories of Empire

Gita Ralleigh in discussion with award-winning writer Sita Brahmachari & poet Laila Sumpton for South Asian Heritage Month, 2023.

LOROS and SAHA South Asian Heritage Month Event

  LOROS Hospice and South Asian Health Action (SAHA) are hosting an event in recognition of South Asian Heritage Month. This will take place at LOROS Day Therapy Centre, (Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QE) on Tuesday 4 July, 4-7pm. South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM) is an opportunity to commemorate, mark and celebrate South Asian cultures, […]

THE GREAT DEFIANCE: HOW THE WORLD TOOK ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE

THE GREAT DEFIANCE: HOW THE WORLD TOOK ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-defiance-how-the-world-took-on-the-british-empire-tickets-639633881157 📅 Fri 9 Jun ⏰ 2pm BST Most of us are familiar with stories of how Britain conquered the world, imposed its will, laws, bureaucracy and the railways across the globe. But what do you know of the misadventures, mishaps, and defiant resistance […]

Santi & Naz

Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading social unrest and violence. They’re too busy stealing books, swimming in the lake and spying on Rahul […]

Santi & Naz

Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading social unrest and violence. They’re too busy stealing books, swimming in the lake and spying on Rahul […]

Santi & Naz

Santi and Naz are bestest-best friends living in a village in pre-partition India. One Sikh, one Muslim; they have little understanding of how religion will divide them. As partition draws closer, the girls remain oblivious to the spreading social unrest and violence. They’re too busy stealing books, swimming in the lake and spying on Rahul […]

Tribe Talks x Partition @ 75

A one night only showcase of a special edition of Tribe Talks, marking the close of the landmark 75 years since the Partition of India.

The Sepoy- Khudadad Khan VC

Born in 1888 in the Punjab village of Dab, Khan was a Muslim Rajput. Khan’s parents died while he was a teenager, and he became a sepoy to support his two sisters. At the outbreak of the First World War his regiment, the 129th Baluchis, was sent to France. In October 1914, Khan, a machine […]

Hardit Singh Malik

 Sardar Hardit Singh Malik was born on the 23rd November 1894 in Rawalpindi in West Punjab. Sent to England aged 14, he attended Eastbourne College, before studying history at Oxford, and playing cricket for Sussex. After the First World War broke out, Hardit applied to join the British Army as a commissioned officer, but racist […]

Gabar Sing Negi VC

Born in Chambra, Uttarakhand in 1895, Gabar Sing Negi was just twenty years of age when, along with his comrades in 2nd Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles, he sailed for Europe in the autumn of 1914. Like many soldiers making up the Indian Corps in the Great War, life on the Western Front came as a […]