- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections
South Asian Genealogy
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
- Author(s):
- Abi HusainyAbi Husainy
With over 2.3 million people, according to the UK 2001 census, South Asians are the largest non‐white population in Britain. South Asians first arrived in Britain 400 years ago. As colonization put more people on the move in the 18th and 19th centuries, Indian seamen, known as Lascars, toiled for the British merchant navy, and nannies, known as ayahs, were employed by East India Company elites and British officials. Indian royal families, including nawabs and rajas, and diplomats visited Britain for pleasure or to submit petitions on legal matters to the Crown, politicians came to argue for Indian independence, and merchants travelled to London on business. Anglo‐Indians sometimes settled in their ancestors’ country, others arrived as scholars to teach Persian and Hindustani languages, and in later times students came to study and take the Indian Civil Service examination. Indian communities grew in London and in several seaport towns when settlers married local women.... ...
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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections