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The historical dynamics that have brought British and South Asian people into contact span more than 400 years and, contrary to what is commonly assumed, Britain became a ‘contact zone ’ (Pratt in Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Routledge, New York, 1992) almost at the same time as the Indian subcontinent itself.
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Pereira-Ares, N. (2018). ‘Our Eastern Costume Created a Sensation’: Sartorial Encounters in Eighteenth-, Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Travelogues by South Asian Writers. In: Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61397-0_1
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