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Chirag Din Chohan

People

A hakim and eye specialist who practised alternative medicine in Harrogate and Middlesbrough

People 16 November 1897 ‐ 3 February 1951

Lawyer and a leader in the movement for an independent Muslim state, who famously coined ‘PAKSTAN’

People 8 December 1852 ‐ 25 February 1929

Promoter of Indian art in Britain and a member of the India Society

People 1898 ‐ 14 November 1978

Doctor who served working-class patients in Finsbury and became Britain's first South Asian mayor

People 21 June 1884 ‐ 23 March 1981

Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army

People 15 April 1893 ‐ 1 April 1975

Journalist, editor and active member of the Communist Party of Great Britain

People 16 September 1881 ‐ 17 September 1964

Critic and writer

People 4 January 1901 ‐ 31 May 1989

Prominent Trinidadian writer of postcolonial literature, historian and political activist

People 1 November 1866 ‐ 6 July 1954

First woman of any ethnicity admitted to study and sit the law exams in England

People 16 December 1875 ‐ 18 June 1953

Theosophist