Our Asian Immigrants
History has linked the People of Britain and the Indian subcontinent since the 17th century. Trade. the army and the civil service took many families out East to a lifetime's involvement. Now People from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have come to live in Britain.
What is the history that shaped their culture and its customs? What is caste and what is purdah, and how do they affect the daily lives of the man and woman in the street? And are these traditional customs under pressure from Western ideas? Rashida Noormohammed, Education Officer of Birmingham's Community Relations Council, and Mathoor Krishnamurti from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, the UK centre of the Institute of Indian Culture, are in the studio to answer your questions about the culture and customs of the Indian subcontinent. Barbara Myers is in the chair Produced by the Woman's Hour Unit
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