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16. Partition

Empire

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The Third Generation of British South Asians

There is an institutional silence in Britain. We don't talk about it, we're not taught it in schools. And then you come here and your kids are born here. They go to school. They think all their family come from India. But they come from perhaps another,. or Pakistani, come from their origin story starts in a different place. So for all those reasons, there was silence. It's also important to say there was a lot of shame and dishonor attached to these memories. You don't want to talk about that. Since the 70th anniversary, people are trying to find out their family history. British South Asians, but also people with colonial British history too. There

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