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Black Star: Britain’s Asian Youth Movements
by Anandi Ramamurthy
(Pluto Press, £17.50)
South Asian communities have a respected place in the history of the left in this country, a tradition that includes Shapurji Saklatvala, born in Bombay, who was elected as a Communist MP in 1922 and Rajani Palme Dutt, born in Cambridge of Indian and Swedish parents, who became the leading theoretician of the Communist Party.
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