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Alice Maude Sorabji Pennell

People 17 July 1874 ‐ 7 March 1951

Doctor and novelist

Aziz Ahmad

People

Missionary and writer who set up the Mission to Lascars in Glasgow

Nisha Ramayya

Oral History

Nisha Ramayya was born in 1986, Aberdeen (Scotland), and is a poet and academic

Kristnalal Datta

People 1865 ‐ 1928

Prominent doctor, activist and public speaker who most notably worked as Chief Medical Officer at the Ferndale Workmen's Hospital from 1900 to 1928

Glasgow Indian Union

Organization 1911

A union that advocated for the rights of Indians in Glasgow

Jomo Kenyatta

People 1895 ‐ 22 August 1978

Kenyan anti-colonialist and the first President of Kenya after independence

Kalyani Sen

People c1917

Second Officer in the Women’s Auxiliary Corps (WAC) during the Second World War

Imtiaz Dharker

People 31 January 1954

Pakistani-born British poet, artist and filmmaker whose work explores themes of identity, religion, cultural displacement and gender

Mission to Lascars, Glasgow

Organization 1897 ‐ 1922

Mission set up by Aziz Ahmad to support Glasgow’s South Asian seafaring community

Force K6

Organization 1939 ‐ February 1944

Indian Contingent of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, stationed in France, evacuated at Dunkirk and northern France, and then deployed in Britain during the Second World War

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