About the Authors

Four Asians of different ages and backgrounds uncovered some fascinating untold stories for this history project. Here they reveal their own personal histories.

Click on the links below to find out more about each of the authors.

• Umara Hussain was born in Gloucester in 1985 of British Pakistani parents.
  
  
• Mohammed Hansdat is a Gloucester resident and apart from his years at university, he has lived in the city for most of his life. His parents hail from Gujarat in India.
  
  
• Sakina Sarwar Choudhury was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and won awards for her work in educational television there before moving to the UK in the 1980s to join her doctor husband.
  
  
• Lalit Choudhury Dandiker was born in Dandi, a small fishing village north of Bombay, in 1931 and worked in Kenya before coming to the UK in 1963.