Forging Global Networks in the Imperial Era: Atiya Fyzee in Edwardian London

This chapter examines the global networks forged by South Asians in Edwardian Britain through the eyes of Atiya Fyzee, a Muslim woman from Bombay. This era is perhaps the least well-served in the available literature on Indian travellers, students and settlers in Britain despite its frequent depiction as the apogee of British imperialism before the First World War began the process of decline. (Continues...