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As the travelogues analysed in Chap. 2 demonstrate, the South Asian presence in Britain is not to be circumscribed to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries alone. However, most South Asians in present-day Britain are connected to the history of South Asian mass displacement that took place in the period following the Second World War.
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Pereira-Ares, N. (2018). The ‘Sartorially Undesirable “Other”’ in Post-War South Asian Diaspora Narratives: Kamala Markandaya’s The Nowhere Man . In: Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61397-0_2
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