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Edinburgh Indian Association
Society for Indian students studying in Edinburgh
Location(s)
Edinburgh
EH8 9LF
United Kingdom
About
The Edinburgh Indian Association was founded in 1883. It was a society for students from India who had come to study in Edinburgh. In supplying figures to the 1907 Lee-Warner Committee into Indian Students, they mentioned eighty-four Indian members. They held regular social events and debates for Indians in Edinburgh and for Scottish members.
In 1911 the Association was involved in litigation in order to win independence from the university authorities.
Gave evidence to Lee-Warner Committee into Indian Students, 1907
Gave evidence to Lytton Committee into Indian Students, 1921–2
Edinburgh Indian Association, 1883–1983 (Centenary Issue, 1983)
See reports of activities in Journal of the National Indian Association
Jeffery, Roger, India in Edinburgh: 1750s to the Present (London: Routledge, 2019)
Lahiri, Shompa, Indians in Britain: Anglo-Indian Encounters, Race and Identity, 1880–1930 (London: Frank Cass, 2000)
Mukherjee, Sumita, Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned (London: Routledge, 2010)
Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)
Correspondence and papers, GB/NNAF/C75445, Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh
Annual Dinner Programme 1937, GB239 GD1/50, Lothian Health Services Archive, Edinburgh University Library, Edinburgh
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
