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Colonial Seamen's Association
Founded to resist legislative discrimination against non-British seamen
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The Colonial Seamen's Association (CSA) was founded in 1935 to galvanize support against the 1935 British Assistance Act, which discriminated against non-British seamen. The organization's secretary was Surat Alley. The CSA held its first annual convention in 1936 and remained active throughout the latter half of the 1930s.
Tabili, Laura, 'We Ask for British Justice': Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1994)
Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)
L/PJ/12/373, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
L/PJ/12/630, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
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© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
