Speaker: Professor Susheila Nasta MBE FRSL, Professor Emeritus, QMUL

The Annual Jacques Berthoud Lecture

This lecture will explore the significant, but hitherto obscured, artistic networks and groupings of South Asian writers, intellectuals, broadcasters and political radicals who lived and worked in ‘Bloomsbury’ in the inter-war period. Extending the parameters of orthodox cultural histories, it will explore how the presence of ‘India’ at the heart of empire anticipated a global vision of modernity, one situated both within and outside the European body. ‘The Bloomsbury Indians’ forms part of a wider cultural project to shift the angle of vision and to highlight how black and Asian writing has long contributed to the diverse and intrinsic formation of British literary culture.

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