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Mansfield Hosiery Strike

Event 27 September 1972 ‐ 29 December 1972

In September 1972, 500 South Asian men and women walked out of the Loughborough-based Mansfield Hosiery Mills to challenge discriminatory employment and working practices

Middlesbrough Race Riot, 1961

Event 18 August 1961 ‐ 22 August 1961

Four nights of attacks perpetrated by locals who were angered by the stabbing of John Joseph Hunt by a Yemeni sailor, in which South Asian people and businesses were targeted

Midland Motor Cylinder Factory Strike

Event November 1968

Strike in 1968 in Smethwick, which involved white workers walking out due to a supposed colour bar operated by South Asian workers

Miners’ Strike

Event 6 March 1984 ‐ 3 March 1985

Resistance to the closure of collieries across the UK in 1984–5, supported by activist groups such as the Asian Youth Movement (AYM) and Indian Workers’ Association (IWA)

Miss World, 1966

Event 17 November 1966

In 1966 the physician Reita Faria became the first Indian to win the Miss World pageant, which was hosted in London

Modern Indian Art Exhibition, 1934

Event 1934

Murder of the Khan Family, 1981

Event July 1981

Arson attack on a Walthamstow house that took the lives of a woman and her three children

Naoroji elected to Central Finsbury

Event 6 July 1892

Operation Blue Star

Event 3 June 1984 ‐ 10 June 1984

Deadly Indian military operation at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, and forty-one other gurdwaras in the Punjab, to expel leading members of the Khalistan (Sikh separatist) movement

Partition of Bengal

Event 16 October 1905 ‐ 1 January 1911