Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, the Labour MP for Slough, has signed a letter calling for the Prime Minister of Pakistan to move forward with the construction of an airport in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir region.
When Britain colonised India, more links were established and
employment opportunities emerged as Indian soldiers travelled to the
UK with some regularity. Indeed, seeking jobs on the merchant fleets,
boatmen from some regions of north-western India began to assert ‘a
virtual monopoly as engine-room stokers on British ships sailing out
of Bombay and Karachi’. After the Second World War and India’s
Independence, more people travelled to the UK to work, particularly
in the 1960s. In Leicester, Indians settled mainly in the Spinney Hills
and Belgrave areas, where affordable housing could still be found.
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