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Books: Non-fiction - An important story of Asian youth
BERNADETTE HYLAND takes a look at a neglected narrative in the history of migrants in Britain
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements
by Anandi Ramamurthy
(Pluto Press, £17.50)
South Asian communities have a respected place in the history of the left in this country, a tradition that includes Shapurji Saklatvala, born in Bombay, who was elected as a Communist MP in 1922 and Rajani Palme Dutt, born in Cambridge of Indian and Swedish parents, who became the leading theoretician of the Communist Party.
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