The United Kingdom

South Asian populations have existed in the United Kingdom since the sixteenth century, although initially they were relatively small (Visram 1986; Mann 1992; Coleman and Salt 1996:7–8). By the nineteenth century, Indians resident in the United Kingdom—England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland—represented a wide spectrum of Indian society, from the nobility to domestic servants. There were princes and nawabs, many of whom came to the United Kingdom following sporadic upheavals in the Indian...