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Mulk Raj Anand
7th May 2008
National Indian Association
Cedric Dover
Dadabhai Naoroji
Aubrey Menen
Laurence Binyon
Currupumullage Jinarajadasa
BBC Indian Section of the Eastern Service
Meary James Tambimuttu
Cornelia Sorabji
Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose
David Garnett
Govinda Krishna Chettur
Sakuntala Performance, November 1919
Union of the East and West
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jiddu Nityananda
Emily Lutyens
Jawaharlal Nehru
Sarojini Naidu
Srinivasa Ramanujan
India House
India House (Offices of the Indian Embassy)
Shyamaji Krishnavarma
Attia Hosain
Ahmed Ali
Krishnarao Shelvankar
Iqbal Singh
Santha Rama Rau
S. M. Marath
Sudhindra Nath Ghose
Narayana Menon
I. B. Sarin
Alagu Subramaniam
Savitri Devi Chowdhary
Z. A. Bokhari
Damyanthi Sahni
Balraj Sahni
Nikhil Sen
Venu Chitale
Sasadhar Sinha
Balachandra Rajan
Basanta Kumar Mallik
K. Ahmad Abbas
Ajit Mookerjee
Fredoon Kabraji
Ayana Deva Angadi
Uday Shankar
Indira Devi
Kaikhosru Sorabji
Jamini Roy
Merle Oberon
Purohit Swami
Harbans Lall Gulati
Dharm Sheel Chowdhary
Jainti Saggar
Chuni Lal Katial
Pulin Behari Seal
Kamal Athon Chunchie
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Diwan Tulsi Das
Basiswar (Boshi) Sen
Atul Chandra Chatterjee
Homi Bhabha
Buck Ruxton
Bhabani Bhattacharya
Khushwant Singh
Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Indira Priyadarshini Nehru
Jahangir Khan
Sehri Saklatvala
Krishna Menon
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi
V. S. Sastrya
Akbar Ali Khan
Surat Alley
Aftab Ali
Clemens Palme Dutt
Nathalal Jagivan Upadhyaya
Ayub Ali
Khwaja Kamaluddin
Yusuf Ali
Syed Ameer Ali
Udham Singh
Herabai Tata
Mithan J Lam
Dhanvanthi Rama Rau
Avabai Wadia
P. V. Subba-Row
S. A. Wickremasinghe
Atma Kamlani
Abdul Majid
P. N. Haksar
Bhicoo Batlivala
J. Handoo
Asha Bhattacharya
T. S. Eliot
E. M. Forster
Leonard Woolf
Virginia Woolf
D. H. Lawrence
Lawrence Durrell
David Gascoyne
Louis MacNeice
George Orwell
Bonamy Dobree
Herbert Read
The Sitwells
Clive Bell
Stevie Smith
Dylan Thomas
Aldous Huxley
H. G. Wells
Stephen Spender
John Lehmann
Henry Moore
Augustus John
Laurence Housman
George Bernard Shaw
Bertrand Russell
H. N. Brailsford
Michael Foot
Fenner Brockway
Reginald Sorensen
Ben Bradley
Agatha Harrison
Sylvia Pankhurst
Stafford Cripps
Harold Laski
Ellen Wilkinson
Monica Whately
Leonard Matters
William H. Quilliam
Indian Freedom League
India League
Indian Workers' Association
Swaraj House
Friends of India Society
Federation of Indian Associations in Great Britain
Hindustani Social Club
Indian Social Club
Coloured Men's Institute
Colonial Seamen's Association
Indian Seamen's Welfare League
Lascars' Welfare League
All-India Seamen's Federation
Lascars' Club
Strangers' Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders
Jamiat-ul-Muslimin
East London Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre
Liverpool Mosque and Muslim Institute
The Shah Jahan Mosque, Woking
Veeraswamy's
Taj Mahal Restaurant
Oriental Film Artistes' Union
Oriental Press Service
Bibliophile Bookshop
Progressive Writers' Association
British Museum
New India Publishing Co
Hogarth Press
Penguin Books
Lawrence & Wishart
Chatto & Windus
Bodley Head
Secker & Warburg
5th Pan African Congress
1919 Race Riots
1919 Aliens Restriction Act
1920 Aliens Order
Special Restriction (Coloured Alien Seamen) Order (1925)
British Shipping (Assistance) Act (1935)
Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Madan Lal Dhingra
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Upendra Krishna Dutt
Rajani Palme Dutt
Rabindranath Tagore
Satyendranath Tagore
Manmohan Ghose
Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree
Keshub Chunder Sen
Sasipada Banerji
Albion Rajkumar Banerji
R. C. Dutt
Toru Dutt
W. C. Bonnerjee
Janaki Agnes Penelope Majumdar
Susila Anita Bonnerjee
N. B. Bonarjee
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Virendranath Chattopadhyaya
Madame Cama
Duleep Singh
Mohammad Iqbal
Samuel Fyzee Rahamin
M. R. Jayakar
K. P. S. Menon
Dosabhai Framji Karaka
Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji
Fazl-I-Husain
Manmath Mallik
M. C. Chagla
M. Asaf Ali
Behramji Malabari
Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Ananda Mohun Bose
George Edalji
Pandita Ramabai
Lala Har Dayal
Sukhsagar Datta
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy
Shapurji Saklatvala
Indra Lal Roy
Hari Singh Gour
Mehdi Hasan Khan
Sukumar Ray
Samuel Satthianadhan
Surendranath Banerjea
Subhas Chandra Bose
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya
Frank Moraes
N. G. Ranga
P. C. Ray
Prakash Tandon
Badruddin Tyabji
Kuruvila Zachariah
Rukhmabai
Sarath Kumar Ghosh
Lalmohan Ghose
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Abdul Karim
E. B. Bhose
Albert Mahomet
Frederick Mahomed
Iftikhar Ali Khan
Liaquat Ali Khan
Firoz Khan Noon
Niranjan Pal
Bepin Chandra Pal
Sunity Devee
T. Ramakrishna
Mohini Chatterjee
S. P. Sinha
Labhu Ram
Kedar Nath Das Gupta
K. M. Panikkar
Sayaji Rao
Sankaran Nair
Humayun Kabir
Saint Nihal Singh
Fanindranath Bose
N. C. Daruwalla
Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji
Mary Carpenter
Edward Carpenter
Elizabeth Adelaide Manning
E. J. Beck
William Hutt Curzon Wyllie
Annie Besant
Max Muller
Monier Monier-Williams
A. P. Sinnett
Edmund William Gosse
Maud Gonne
Iseult Gonne
Benjamin Jowett
Arthur Symons
William Butler Yeats
Henry Mayers Hyndman
William Rothenstein
Margaret Noble
Harold Monro
Oscar Wilde
George Birdwood
William Digby
Charlotte Despard
Gottlieb Leitner
Florence Nightingale
Joseph Salter
Ernest Binfield Havell
Hodgson Pratt
Josephine Ransom
Charles W. Leadbeater
Alfred Webb
H. P. Blavatsky
John Maynard Keynes
Northbrook Society
East India Association
Theosophical Society
India Society
Indian Institute
Brahmo Samaj
Indian National Congress
National Liberal Club
Fabians
London Indian Society
Edinburgh Indian Association
Oxford Majlis
Cambridge Majlis
Indian Students' Union and Hostel
Zoroastrian Association
Ayahs' Home
Indian Gymkhana
The Imperial Institute
Student Movement House
21 Cromwell Road
Glasgow Indian Union
Indian Catering Company
Oxford Union
Lotus Club
Federation of Indian Student Societies
Shafi's Restaurant
Lytton Report into Indian Students
Bombay Emporium
Eric Gill
Alice Maude Sorabji Pennell
George Arundale
Paira Mall
T. W. Rolleston
G. V. Desani
Rakhal Das Haldar
Aliens Act
First World War (1914-1918)
Formation of League of Nations
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
Coronation of King Edward VII
Thomas W. Arnold
Mary Hobhouse
1924 British Empire Exhibition
Sabu
Christiana Herringham
Siddha Mohana Mitra
Battle for and Evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
Second World War (1939-1945)
1942 Quit India Movement
1947 Independence and Partition
Frederick Duleep Singh
Sophia Duleep Singh
Ram Singh
Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike
Alexander Korda
Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah
Simon Report
Bhupinder Singh
Indian Comforts Fund
Ranjee G Shahani
Ernest Christopher Dowson
Jaipal Singh
Round Table Conferences, 1930-1932
George Russell (AE)
Cripps Mission
Festival of Empire, 1911
Franco-British Exhibition, 1908
Empire of India Exhibition, 1895
Liberty & Co. Display, November 1885
Manchershaw Pithawala
Emmeline Pankhurst
Frank Hugh O'Donnell
Millicent Fawcett
Ezra Pound
Sikh Dharamsala, London
Universal Races Congress
Oriental Club
Claude Auchinleck
M. Kumaramangalam
T. Subasinghe
George Padmore
William Archer
Bridget Tunnard
Julius Silverman
Ceylon Students' Association
League Against Imperialism
Barbara Castle
Modern Indian Art Exhibition, 1934
Uday Shankar’s debut performance
Jinadasa Vijayatunga
Mukul Dey
Edward John Thompson
Atul Bose
J. A. Lalkaka
Edwin Lutyens
Chintamoni Kar
Dilip Roy
Swami Vivekananda
George Ambrose Lloyd
Muhammad Ayub Khan
British Commonwealth of Nations (1931)
Ernest Rhys
Thomas Sturge Moore
Indian Committee for Food for Spain
World Congress of Faiths
Francis Younghusband
Walter Crane
Hsiao Ch'ien
Jomo Kenyatta
Harold Moody
Alice Richardson
Maud MacCarthy
Indian National Army Defence Committee
Michael Joseph Publishers
Paul Robeson
Lawrence John Lumley Dundas
Robert Graves
Amiya Nath Bose
Hindustan Community House
Left Book Club
Robert Bridges
Devika Rani
C. F. Andrews
Asiatic Review
C. L. R. James
League of Coloured Peoples
Una Marson
C. E. M. Joad
Britain and India
India and England
Indian Art and Letters
Journal of the East India Association
Life and Letters Today
Lucifer
Poetry London
The Africa and Orient Review
The Bookman
The Indian Appeal
The Indian Sociologist
The Journal of National Indian Association
Sajjad Zaheer
Home
Imperial Conference
Spanish Civil War
Foundation of India Society
Arrival of Maharaja Duleep Singh in England
Tagore wins Nobel Prize for Literature
Naoroji elected to Central Finsbury
A. R. Orage
India
New Statesman
India Bulletin
The London Mercury
Said Amir Shah
The Listener
Shah Jolal Restaurant
About this project
About us
Queen Victoria Becomes Empress of India
Black Friday
Horizon: Review of Literature and Art
Asian Horizon
Islamic Review
Ram Gopal
Queen Victoria's Proclamation
Foundation of National Indian Association
Foundation of Indian National Congress
Bhownaggree elected to North-East Bethnal Green
Saklatvala elected to Battersea North
Ranji's Test Debut for England
Assassination of Curzon-Wyllie
British Premiere of Light of Asia
Keir Hardie
Left Review
Committee of Indian Congressmen
B. R. Ambedkar
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar plaque. 65 Cromwell Avenue, Highgate, London
Ali Mohammed Abbas
General Election, 1906
T. B. Pandian
Shyamaji Krishnavarma plaque. 60 Muswell Hill Road, Highgate, London
Rabindranath Tagore plaque. 3 Heath Villas, Vale of Heath, Hampstead, London
B. R. Ambedkar plaque. 10 King Henry Road, Chalk Farm, London
Ali Mohammed Abbas. 33 Tavistock Square, London - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Duleep Singh. 53 Holland Park, London - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Mohammed Ali Jinnah. 35 Russell Road, London - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Dadabhai Naoroji. Finsbury Town Hall, Rosebury Avenue, London - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Jawaharlal Nehru. 60 Elgin Crescent, Kensington and Chelsea - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose. 49 St Stephen’s Avenue, London - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Syed Ahmed Khan plaque. 21 Mecklenburgh Square, Camden - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Syed Ahmed Khan
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi - photo by F. C. Stadtler
Cornelia Sorabji - photo courtesy of Richard Sorabji
Mary Carpenter
Ram Gopal. South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive.
Attia Hosain. South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive
Mulk Raj Anand. South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive
Eric Gill. Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
Sarojini Naidu in London, 1931 (wikimedia commons)
William Butler Yeats. Library of Congress LC-USZ62-87604
Keir Hardie. Library of Congress LC-DIG-ggbain-01094
Charlotte Despard. Library of Congress LC-DIG-ggbain-05696
Benjamin Jowett - photo courtesy of Richard Sorabji
Buck Ruxton. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
M. A. Jinnah. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Merle Oberon. "[Popperfoto]/Getty Images"
Nehru and Indira. "[Keystone]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
K. A. Chunchie. "[Henry Guttman]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Z. A. Bokhari. "[Hans Wild]/[Time & Life Pictures]/Getty Images"
R. Palme Dutt. "[Hans Wild]/[Time & Life Pictures]/Getty Images"
Maharaja of Patiala. "[Central Press]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
William Rothenstein & Uday Shankar. "[William Vanderson]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Saklatvala & Neubald. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Subhas Chandra Bose & George Lansbury. "[H. F. Davis]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Sabu at Waterloo Station. "[Stephenson]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
M. M. Bhownaggree. "[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Jinnah & Liaquat. "[Keystone]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Ranji. "[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Sophia Duleep Singh, Ladies Day 1916. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Victor Duleep Singh. "[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Victor Duleep Singh
Duleepsinhji. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Iftikhar Ali. "[Fox Photos]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Gandhi in London, 1931. "[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Krishnamurti & Besant. "[General Photographic]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
J. M. R. Jayakar. "[A. Hudson]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
J. M. R. Jayakar
London Tour, August 1919. "[Topical Press Agency]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Mural by R. Ukil. "[Herbert Felton]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
15 August 1949. "[Ron Case]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Victoria Cross Holders. "[Reg Speller]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
March at Embankment, 1938. "[London Express]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Mahinder Singh Pujji
Indian Merchant Shipping Act
Indian Writing
Naomi Mitchison
About the Database Team
About the project
Indian Pilots, 8 October 1940. "[New York Times Co.]/[Hulton Archive]/Getty Images"
Wyndham Lewis
Atiya Fyzee
Keshub Chunder Sen. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Seven Indian Officers by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Albion Raj Kumar Banerji by Bassano. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee by Bassano. Copyright National Portrait Gallery
Basiswar ("Boshi") Sen by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Copyright National Portrait Gallery
Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Copyright National Portrait Gallery
Sir Mohammed Iqbal by Lady Ottoline Morrell. Copyright National Portrait Gallery
Kovalam Madhava Panikkar by Bassano. Copyright National Portrait Gallery
Mukund Ramrao Jayakar by Bassano. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Duleep Singh, Maharaja of the Punjab by Antoine Claudet. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Satyendra Prasanna Sinha by Bassano. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Sayaji Rao III, Maharaja of Baroda by Sir (John) Benjamin Stone. Copyright National Portrait Gallery, London
Nineteenth Century
Macmillan's Magazine
Making Britain User Questionnaire
Amritsar Massacre
Foundation of Muslim League
Partition of Bengal
Swami Vivekananda (wikimedia commons)
Michael Madhusudan Datta (wikimedia commons)
Foundation of Shah Jahan Mosque
Cornelia Sorabji admitted to Oxford
Foundation of Indian Institute
Boer War
Opening of Suez Canal
Jagadish Chandra Bose (wikimedia commons)
Home Rule for India League
First INC, 1885. British Library, St Pancras: T10951
Romesh Chunder Dutt (Digital Library of India)
Bipin Chandra Pal (wikimedia commons)
Max Muller (wikimedia commons)
S. Chandrasekhar. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection, LC-USW3- 007566-C
Ananda Coomaraswamy (wikimedia commons)
Srinivasa Ramanujan. Copyright: Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.
Shah Jahan Mosque (wikimedia commons)
Al-Rahma Mosque Plaque (wikimedia commons)
Foundation of League of Coloured Peoples
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Sunder Kabadia
S. Raja Ratnam
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