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Dadabhai Naoroji

People 4 September 1825 ‐ 30 June 1917

Businessman, economist, lecturer and elected Liberal MP for Central Finsbury in 1892

People 1966

British Punjabi poet and Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University

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Employee of the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service and the wife of actor and broadcaster Balraj Sahni

People 9 December 1955

Prominent Guyanese-born novelist, poet, broadcaster, scholar and diplomat

People 9 March 1892 ‐ 17 February 1981

Writer and publisher with connections to the Bloomsbury Group and India House

People 10 October 1916 ‐ 25 November 2001

Poet, writer and translator, known for his promotion of the Surrealist movement in Britain

People 18 December 1808 ‐ 1 July 1851

Radical Liberal MP of European and Indian heritage from the princely state of Sardhana

People 12 December 1921 ‐ 23 July 2001

Bengali field recordist, radio and record producer who worked with the BBC and the Argo Recording Company in the mid twentieth century

People 30 March 1908 ‐ 9 March 1994

Notable Indian actress and co-founder of the Bombay Talkies studio, whose film career began in Britain

People 26 September 1904 ‐ 11 November 1979

Physician, politician and social reformer who was best known for being Birmingham's first South Asian councillor