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Sehri Saklatvala
Political activist and supporter of Indian independence
Place of birth
Location(s)
Highgate Road
London
NW5 1TR
United Kingdom
About
The youngest daughter of Communist politician Shapurji Saklatvala and his English wife, Sarah Marsh, Sehri Saklatvala was born in Twickenham in 1919 and grew up in London. Along with her three brothers and sister, Saklatvala was raised in fairly modest circumstances, despite the family connection with the Tata firm. As a young woman, she became involved with the struggle for Indian independence in Britain. Indian Political Intelligence surveillance files note her presence in 1937 at India League meetings, along with other South Asian and British intellectuals and activists such as Mulk Raj Anand, Dr S. A. Wickremasinghe, Harry Pollitt and Reginald Sorensen, as well as Krishna Menon. In the early 1940s she was also active, at least for a short while, in the Committee of Indian Congressmen.
Meetings of the India League and the Committee of Indian Congressmen
The Fifth Commandment: Biography of Shapurji Saklatvala (Salford: Miranda Press, 1991)
Saklatvala Papers, Mss Eur D 1173, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras
Image credit
© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present
