Sikh Matron
- Kinver
- 1985-10-13
Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England for the second India Round Table Conference at St James's Palace
This fascinating newsreel from 1931 captures Mahatma Gandhi's arrival in England to negotiate constitutional reforms at the second India Round Table Conference at St James' Palace, London.
From local news to feature film, through home movies and TV documentaries, this collection showcases South Asian Britons in front of and behind the camera. The contribution of colonial troops is illuminated through the earliest newsreels, while hardhitting current affairs programmes highlight the struggles faced in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Public information films produced for South Asian audiences feature alongside Hindi-language films made in Britain and interviews with prominent Asian-British figures. A bold wave of British Asian filmmaking in the 1990s is represented through early works by the likes of Gurinder Chadha and Asif Kapadia.