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Bakhshish Singh Bhullar

People 1925 ‐ 2014

Businessman and community leader based in Huddersfield

People 1920 ‐ 23 January 2009

Scholar of poetry and a member of the Indian Foreign Service

People May 1913 ‐ 13 April 1973

Hindi-language broadcaster for the BBC's Indian Section of the Eastern Service

People 1947

Activist and founder of the Indian Youth Federation, which was the first anti-racist South Asian youth organization in Britain

People 6 October 1910 ‐ 3 May 2002

Labour Party MP for Blackburn who held several cabinet positions

People 1879 ‐ December 1958

Philosopher, author and educator

People 22 October 1926 ‐ 20 December 2019

Scottish politician, community organizer, author and the UK’s first Muslim to be voted into public office

People 1887 ‐ 31 December 1970

Scientist and agriculturalist

People 1853 ‐ 1912

Writer, social reformer and advocate for women's rights

People 1898 ‐ 1957

Leading member in the Communist Party of Great Britain, militant trade unionist and anti-colonialist