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Britain and India, 1600-1947: teaching resources

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Britain and India, 1600-1947: teaching resources

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Explore the Britain and India Padlet board with teaching activities, expert films and other resources.

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Britain and India, 1600-1947: source labels

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Britain and India, 1600-1947: source labels

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Learn more about the sources on this Britain & India Padlet board.

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: 12906.k.2. 

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Location: London

Creator: A L Valentini

Format: Printed book, dictionary

Copyright: Public domain

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Page 44 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with phrases in Lascari and English, for example 'who are you? where are you going?'.

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Page 45 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with phrases in Lascari and English, for example 'how can I help it'.

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Page 12 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with phrases in Lascari and English, for example 'do you understand?'.

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Page 13 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with phrases in Lascari and English, for example 'Put on the strop'.

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Page 206 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with words in Lascari and English, for example supper, sugar and sun.

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Page 206 of a Lascari-Bât from 1896, with words in Lascari and English, for example swift, sweet and swoon.

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: PP.1041.c.

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Photograph of the exterior of the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, 1921

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Photograph of the exterior of the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, 1921

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Location: London, England

Creator: Unknown

Format: Photograph

Copyright: Public domain

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Photograph of a group of people standing in the doorway of a building, with the sign Ayahs Home over the doorway. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Mss Eur D620

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Proclamation announcing the transference of the government of India to the British Crown, 1858

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Proclamation announcing the transference of the government of India to the British Crown, 1858

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Location: British India

Creator: British Crown; Queen Victoria

Format: Proclamation

Copyright: Public domain

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Page of text with handwriting at the top

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Page with text, with handwriting from the other side that has seeped through visible at the top

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Mss Eur F754/2/1

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Location: Calcutta, British India

Creator: Mrs G F Greenhill

Format: Manuscript

A transcript is available in the sources label document on this Padlet.

Copyright: We have been unable to locate the owner of the copyright in this material. Please contact copyright@bl.uk with any information you have regarding this item.

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Handwritten ayah's contract, with a colourful blue border at the top. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: C.119.d.25.

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Location: India

Creator: Charles D'Oyly

Format: Printed book, illustration

Copyright: Public domain

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Cartoon of a white man sat in a chair in a house with a map of Africa on the wall and a dog lies at his feet, with three soldiers and a South Asian man standing next to him. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Add Or 5639.

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Painting of the Login children with their ayah and Indian playmate, 1846

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Painting of the Login children with their ayah and Indian playmate, 1846

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Location: Lucknow, India

Creator: Unknown

Format: Painting

Copyright: Public domain

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An ayah stands in an ornate nursery with a painting on the wall and rug on the floor. She holds a baby in her arms, with two children standing next to her and another riding a rocking horse with a whip in his hands. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: NEWS10063.

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'Bhagwar Jassiwarra accused of murder', Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1891

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'Bhagwar Jassiwarra accused of murder', Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1891

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Location: Dundee, Scotland

Creator: Dundee Evening Telegraph

Format: Newspaper

Copyright: Public domain

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An extract of a newspaper article with a portrait drawing of the accused at the top above the text. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Foster 597.

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Location: Lucknow, India

Creator: Johann Zoffany

Format: Painting

Copyright: Public domain

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A painting of an ayah and child standing next to a family who are seated on the floor. They are outside, with palm trees in the background. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: 10349.h.12.

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Photograph of the interior of the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, 1904

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Photograph of the interior of the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, 1904

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Location: London, England

Creator: Unknown

Format: Photograph

Copyright: Public domain

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A group of South Asian women sit around a table sewing and reading in a house. 

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: 4192.bb.43.

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The Asiatic in England by Joseph Salter, 1873

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The Asiatic in England by Joseph Salter, 1873

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Location: London, England

Creator: Joseph Salter

Format: Printed book, illustration

Copyright: Public domain

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Pencil drawing of five men, one of whom is seated. 

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Pencil drawing of five men, one of whom is seated. 

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Illustration of the lascars home, a large grand building with windows along the front and stairs up to the front door

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: C900/11105

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Yusef Abdullah on the lascar community in South Shields, 1999

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Yusef Abdullah on the lascar community in South Shields, 1999

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Location: Newcastle

Creator: Yusef Abdullah and Virtue Jones

Format: Oral history

A transcript of this interview is available in the source label document on this Padlet.

Copyright: BBC

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: IOR/L/PJ/6/515, File 1381

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Confidential British colonial correspondence on Indian students, 1898

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Confidential British colonial correspondence on Indian students, 1898

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Location: Simla, British India

Creator: Captain H. Daly and Lieutenant-Colonel H Wylie

Format: Letter, official correspondence

Copyright: Open government licence

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: W4965 (b),(c )

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Examination papers for Indian Civil Service, 1858

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Examination papers for Indian Civil Service, 1858

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Location: London

Creator: Indian Civil Service

Format: Examination papers

Copyright: Public domain

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Mss Eur F165/6

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Letter from Cornelia Sorabji to her family, 1892

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Letter from Cornelia Sorabji to her family, 1892

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Location: Oxford, England

Creator: Cornelia Sorabji

Format: Letter

A transcript is available in the sources label document on this Padlet.

Copyright: Usage granted by Professor Sir Richard Sorabji for the estate of Cornelia Sorabji

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: PENN.NT36.

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East India Company Army recruitment advertisement, Dublin Evening Press, 1779

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East India Company Army recruitment advertisement, Dublin Evening Press, 1779

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Location: Dublin, Ireland

Creator: Dublin Evening Post

Format: Newspaper

Copyright: Public domain

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: ST 182.

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'Indian Gentlemen in the West', The Indian Magazine, 1890

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'Indian Gentlemen in the West', The Indian Magazine, 1890

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Location: Bristol, England

Creator: The Indian Magazine

Format: Magazine

Copyright: Public domain

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'Indian Gentlemen in the West', The Indian Magazine, 1890

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Held by British Library. Shelfmark: Mss Eur F754/2/2.

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Photograph of an ayah with the Greenhill family, c. 1890-1910

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Photograph of an ayah with the Greenhill family, c. 1890-1910

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Location: British India

Creator: Unknown

Format: Photograph

Copyright: Public domain

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Black and white photograph of the Greenhill family. The mother and father are seated, she holds a baby in her arms and a young girl stands between her parents. Their ayah stands behind the mother in her uniform. They are outside their house beneath a tree.

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Photographic collage featuring lascars, 1906

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Photographic collage featuring lascars, 1906

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Location: London

Creator: Reinhold Thiele, The Illustrated London News

Format: Collage, photograph

Copyright: Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo

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Photograph of Somerville Hall, Class of 1891

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Photograph of Somerville Hall, Class of 1891

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Location: Oxford, England

Creator: Unknown

Format: Photograph

Copyright: Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford

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Sepia toned photograph of women from Somerville Hall, there are four rows of women standing and sitting. They wear formal clothes. 