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George Edalji

People 1876 ‐ 17 June 1953

Solicitor who was accused of mutilating animals in notorious legal case in the early twentieth century

People 25 June 1903 ‐ 21 January 1950

Novelist, journalist and essayist who was born in India

People 28 July 1902 ‐ 23 September 1959

Socialist Pan-Africanist whose network in Britain included leading Indian anti-colonialists

People 10 April 1867 ‐ 17 July 1935

Writer and member of the Theosophical Society

People c1844 ‐ September 1861

The first recorded South Asian to live in Middlesbrough

People 6 June 1914 ‐ 24 December 1991

Served in the British Army during the Second World War and worked for the Middlesbrough-based bridge manufacturer Dorman Long

People 15 September 1840 ‐ 22 March 1899

Educationist and founder of the Orient Institute and Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking

People 24 April 1898 ‐ 3 March 1936

Indian poet

People 1940

NHS nurse and midwife

People 10 January 1960

British film director and screenwriter, born in Kenya, with roots in India and Pakistan