Indian Students at Victorian Oxford: FOR OXFORD CIVIC SOCIETY MEMBERS ONLY

From the 1870s, increasing numbers of Indian nationals came to be educated at the University of Oxford. Why did they come and how did they fare? This tour by Stephen Barker begins with a brief history of Anglo-India relations since the early 1600s, with a visit to the Ashmolean Museum and a visit to the Moghuls in India Gallery. The tour takes in Somerville and Balliol Colleges, acknowledges the part played at St John's and by the old Indian Institute on Catte Street. You'll be introduced to the first British university educated Indian woman, Sikh princesses, two revolutionaries and a First World War fighter pilot.