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Diwan Tulsi Das
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Lecturer in Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen
Date of arrival to Britain
Location(s)
Aberdeen
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
About
Diwan Tulsi Das taught Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen. Das arrived in Britain in 1900 as a student in medicine. He eloped with the daughter of Dr Charles Maxwell Muller and settled with her in Aberdeen. He took up a number of professions, including taxi driving, and served in the army during the First World War, before being appointed Lecturer in Hindustani at the University of Aberdeen in the 1920s.
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
