South Asian Heritage Month

Want to know more about people’s cultural history? Listening to the stories they tell can offer a great way in. This year for South Asian Heritage Month stories ranging from the mythical to the musical are a key focus for learning about the people and cultures of South Asia. What do the stories that are told at festivals, at bedtime and around campfires do to help us all understand the experiences of those who have gone before us and who live in oversea lands. Find out more about the South Asian community historically and culturally this July and August, via the South Asian Heritage Month website and also our collected podcasts and articles:

• Podcast: South Asian British History 1600-1800 (open access till the end of August)
• Podcast: South Asian British History 1800-1900 (open access till the end of August)
• Podcast: South Asian British History 1900-1947 (open access till the end of August)
• Podcast: The British Empire in India 
• Podcast: The language and politics of the Indian Independence Movement between 1847 and 1947 
• Recorded Webinar: ‘Drawing the Line’: the 1947 Partition of India 
• India in 1914 (Historian article)
• Imperialism resurgent: European attempts to 'recolonise' South East Asia after 1945 (Teaching History article)
• For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes (Primary History article)