Numerous studies on the UK Bengali community have been carried out by various academics and professionals. Below is a selection of papers. Please note that Swadhinata Trust may not necessarily share the views shown in external links from this site.

A series of books on East End by author Mayar Akash:

1. Re-awakening – Re-Awakening by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
2. Politicians of Tower Hamlets – Tower Hamlets Bangladeshi Politicians’ Reference Book 1982-2018 by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
3. Tide of change – Tides of Change – Snapshots of 1993-94 by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
4. Young Voice – Young Voice by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
5. Brick & Mortar –  http://www.lulu.com/shop/mayar-akash/bangladeshi-east-end-brick- mortar/paperback/product-24160715.html
6. Vigil Sabotaged – Vigil Subotaged by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
7. British Sylheti Chronicle – Chronicle of Sylhetis of United Kingdom by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
8. Bangladeshi Fish – Bangladeshi Fishes Basic Guide by Mayar Akash (Paperback) — Lulu GB
9. Sylheti Identity Books Sylheti Identity Books
10. LBTH Bangladeshi Politicians 1982-2017 LBTH Bangladeshi Politicians 1982-2017
11. Let’s Learn Bengali Let’s Learn Bengali

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• Transnational land and property disputes the British Bangladeshi experience  (PDF Report)
• Words and violence: militant Islamist attacks on bloggers in Bangladesh and the UK (PDF Report)
• Curry Capital report by Sean Carey (PDF)
• Notions of Belonging of Bangladeshi People Residing in the Netherlands (PDF)
• Review ‘The untold stories of Muslim migrants in the Bengal delta’ in The Daily Star (PDF Report)
• National Identities (PDF Report)
• Do Brick Lane’s curry houses have a future? by Sean Carey
• Peter Custers Collection
• Changing narratives of violence, struggle and resistance: Bangladeshis and the competition for resources in the global city John Eade and David Garbin (doc 81 KB)
• Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London’s East End John Eade (doc 63 KB)
• Bengali-Muslim Conflict and Competition Approaches to constructing community in SpitalfieldsJessica S Borowick (email) (doc 60 KB)
• The Logic of Letting Go: Family and Individual Migration from Matlab, Bangladesh Randall Kuhn (pdf 177 KB)
• Miracle Worker or Womanmachine? Tracking (Trans)national Realities in Bangladeshi FactoriesDina M Siddiqi (pdf 54 KB)
• Globalization, International Migration and the Need for Networking: The Bangladesh PerspectiveRita Afsar, PhD (pdf 75 KB)
• Interrogating Victimhood: East Bengali Refugee Narratives of Communal Violence Nilanjana Chatterjee (pdf 77 KB)
• Women, Islam And The State In Bangladesh Subordination And Resistance Tazeen Mahnaz Murshid (pdf 40 KB)
• The taste of Banglatown Guardian article by Paul Barker on Sean Carey’s report on Brick Lane
• Statement of the Conference of the Bangladesh Forum Germany on Human Rights and Civil Society in Bangladesh (doc 105 KB) Conference held on 26th and 27th January 2006, Berlin
• Amnesty International Report on Bangladesh
• COUNTRY OF ORIGIN INFORMATION REPORT – BANGLADESH by Home Offie (doc 1 MB)
• Marxism and Multiculturalism by Sarah Glyn (doc 101 KB)
• Identity by Jessica (doc 42 KB)
• The proprietors of history by Jeremy Seabrooks (doc 44 KB)
• Human Rights Overview – Bangladesh by Human Rights Watch (doc 89 KB)
• Dynamics of Remittance utilization in Bangladesh by Tom De Bruyn (htm 19 KB)
• Bangladeshi male and female migrants in Malaysia by Anja Rudnick (htm 11 KB)
• Economic Migrant or Hyphenated British? Writing about difference in London’s East End by John Eade (doc 65 KB)
• Review of: `The political construction of diasporic communities in the global city’. In P. Gilbert (ed.), Imagined Londons, Albany: SUNY Press. by John Eade (doc 90 KB)
• Changing Narratives of Violence, Struggle and Resistance: Bangladeshis and the Competition for Resources in the Global City by JOHN EADE & DAVID GARBIN (txt 46 KB)
• Bangladeshi diaspora in the UK: socio-cultural dynamics, religious trends and transnational politics by Dr David Garbin Cronem, University of Surrey (doc 126 KB)
• Competing Visions of Identity and Space: Bangladeshi Muslims in Britain by John Eade and David Garbin (doc 99 KB)
• Bangladeshis in east London: from secular politics to Islam by Delwar Hussain
• The Threat of Bangladesh by Chris Blackburn
• Olympics – effect on Green Street by Paul Barker for the Guardian
• The Spirit of ’71: how the Bangladeshi War of Independence has haunted Tower Hamlets Sarah Glynn, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
• Moving on up? Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black Caribbean women and work Early findings from the EOC’s investigation in England
• Terrorism, Democracy, and Economic Development in Bangladesh International Conference on Bangladesh Sep 30th 2006, United Nations Plaza Millennium Hotel, New York
• Crisis Group Report on Bangladesh Today Islamabad/Brussels, 23 October 2006: With national elections due in January 2007 amid political discord that could threaten its democracy and encourage the growth of militant Islamist forces, Bangladesh needs to be taken more seriously.
• When Progressives Treat With Reactionaries: The British State’s flirtation with radical Islamism by Martin Bright, the political editor of The New Statesman.
• Bangladesh and the World Bank saga article by Jamil M. Iqbal published in the socialist appeal.
• Terrorism in Bangladesh The Region and Beyond by Chris Blackburn.
• COMING OF THE CHAMELEONS THE EMERGENCE OF A ‘DISCOURSE OF CHOICE’ AMONGST THE CHILDREN OF SOUTH ASIAN AND WHITE PARENTS
  Sultana Choudhry, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
• New ethnicities among British Bangladeshi and mixed-heritage youth University of Surrey
• writing British Asian cities a project which aims to establish a permanent forum for sustained and focused interchange between scholars interested in broadly Arts and Humanities perspectives on the South Asian heritage presence in Britain
• Pay gaps A report published for the EOC’s Moving on up investigation reveals that Pakistani women working full time earn 28% less per hour than white men working full-time.
• Bangladesh and the crisis over the Caretaker Government By Jamil M. Iqbal Wednesday, 17 January 2007
• The Road to a Sharia state?Cultural Radicalization in Bangladesh by Maneeza Hossain
• Living apart together British Muslims and the paradox of multiculturalism – Munira Mirza, Abi Senthilkumaran and Zein Ja’far
• When Progressives Treat with Reactionaries – Pamphlet by Martin Bright courtesy of Policy Exchange
• Moving on up? The Way Forwardreport by the Equal Opportunities Commission detailing findings of their two year investigation into Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black Caribbean women and work
• Publications on the Hudson Institute website by Maneeza Hossain
• Bangladesh at the crossroads By A. Tariq Karim and C. Christine Fair for the United States Institute of Peace
• Moving on up? The Way Forward On 15 March 2007 the Equal Opportunities Commission published Moving on up? The way forward. The final report details findings of our two year investigation into Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Black Caribbean women and work and highlights challenges for the future.
• Article by Mosarrof Hussain on Faith Schools in Scotland Commissioned by the New Statesman
• Home Office report on Bangladesh
• Brick Lane food revival Time Out article
• The Crime of Partition – part 1 Article in Socialist Appeal by Jamil Iqbal
• The Crime of Partition – part 2 Article in Socialist Appeal by Jamil Iqbal
• The Crime of Partition – part 3: The role of the Communist Party of India during Partition Article in Socialist Appeal by Jamil Iqbal
• London Lives – Speaking of Home (pdf file – opens in new window)
  Bangladeshi women in London’s East End reflect on belonging – Nicola Samson (also available on www.risingeast.org).
• East London Advertiser article on Respect.Author and academic Jamil Iqbal offers a new perspective on the much-publicised and highly acrimonious divisions w hich are threatening to tear Respect apart. (pdf file – opens in new window)
• Political Again: Legacies of the Anti-War Struggle (pdf file – opens in new window)
  By Jamil Iqbal and Richard Phillips, Bangla Mirror, 26/07/07
• Against Women in Bangladesh (pdf file – opens in new window) published by Women Living Under Muslim Laws
• Justice After Genocide: Ways To Deal With The Past (pdf file – opens in new window) by Dr. Zia Uddin Ahmed – first published in the News From Bangladesh, October 27, 1997
• Torture in Bangladesh 1971-2004 (pdf file – opens in new window) Report from The Redress Trust – realised with financial support from the European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights
• Reporters Without Borders’ 2008 Annual Report on Bangladesh rise of the military government, the lack of freedom of press, threats to media personnel and the torture of journalists
• State of human rights in the UK in 2007 (pdf file – opens in new window) UK human rights situation in 2007: US Report
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – Bangladesh 2007 (pdf file – opens in new window) Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor March 11, 2008
• Human Rights Watch – The Torture of Tasneem Khalil (pdf file – opens in new window) How the Bangladesh Military Abuses Its Power under the State of Emergency
• The Dark Side of the Muslim Council of Britain FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, February 03, 2005
• Border rustling By Delwar Hussain February 2009
• Bangladesh: Junior Partner in the U.S. “War on Terror?” by Brian Palmer, 28 May 2010
• Bangladesh’s Secular Revolution by K. Anis Ahmed. published in Wall Street Journal – http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703369704575460973747040644-lMyQjAxMTAwMDMwMTEzNDEyWj.html
• Bangladesh Bans Compulsory ‘Islamic’ Dress by Irfan Al-Alawi and Stephen Schwartz, The Weekly Standard Blog, September 8, 2010
• “You are what you eat: Culture, Memory and Identity Creation in the British-Bengali Kitchen”, by Stephanie Brady, 2007
• Is Brick Lane in danger of losing its spice? by Sean Carey, published in the Guardian, September 2010
• Are touts and late night noise just part of Brick Lane’s charm? by Sean Carey, published in the Guardian, 5 February 2015
• From Brick Lane to Bengali Avenue by Gareth Potts, February 2015, DVoice, Detriot, Michigan, US

Bengali Articles

This is a summary of findings from a research project entitled “Contours of the ethnic welfare state in London and Los Angeles” by Dr Geoff DeVerteuil, School of Geography, University of Southampton.

UK BASED BENGALI ORGANISATIONS

There are a number of UK based Bengali organisations working for the betterment of the Bengali community:

BoB Professionals
At present the UK has a population of about half a million Bengalis. The first generation Bengalis tended to maintain close contact as they established themselves in the UK. To this day, they continue to maintain this informal contact and provide a ‘sense of community’ through local community associations, mosques and other such organisations.

The last few years has seen the second generation establishing itself in the British society, excelling in education and progressing to professional jobs both in private and public sectors. However there is an ever-growing vacuum among these Bengalis who are increasingly feeling the distance and seclusion from their local communities. BoB was formed to provide these professionals with the opportunity to exchange ideas and discuss.

BritBangla
BritBangla is a celebration of the achievements of British Bengalis from all over the country. The aim is to promote these extraordinary talents and draw attention to the remarkable contribution Bengalis have made to British society.

BritBangla achieve to do this by bringing together like-minded people and build up a strong network of professional Bengalis to collectively share their successes and raise the Brit Bengali profile. British Bengalis who feel they have something to offer are encouraged to take part in the various programmes and projects which will hopefully benefit the community as a whole.

BBPA
The British-Bangladeshi Professional Association is a not-for-profit organisation founded to foster educational attainment and the pursuit of professional excellence in the Bangladeshi community in the United Kingdom.

Banglabangla
Banglabangla enables young people to learn about life in Bangladesh, through information provided by young people with experience of the culture and community. The site’s development, co-ordinated by the Humanities Education Centre in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, UK has involved young people at all stages.

24 Hour Museum – Bengali Heritage in London
Forging a Unique Identity: Bengali Heritage in London Article by By Shruti Ganapathy 23/06/2005

British Bangla Youth
Connecting young British Bangladeshis with Bangladeshi youth project This project was set in motion by RMMRU and aims to develop links between young British-Bangladeshis and their counterparts in Bangladesh.

The Swadhinata Trust are involved in various campaigns to bring about justice. The links on this page reflect some of the issues that the Swadhinata Trust consider to be important in achieving a just and peaceful world.

• The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)
• Stop the War Coalition (UK)
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
• Palestine Solidarity Campaign
• Secular Voice of Bangladesh
• International Humanist and Ethical Union
• Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist & Christian Unity Council
• Redress – Seeking reparation for torture survivors
• Amnesty International
• The International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
• The International Forum for Secular Bangladesh, UK Branch
• Human Rights Watch – dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world
• Minority Rights Group International – working to secure the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples
• Muktadhara – an open site on Bangladesh and Bengalee culture, heritage, history, politics and society
• JAMATEPISLAMI
• Mukto-mona – humanist and secularist site for free thinkers
• Vinnomot – bilingual e-magazine for Bengali and international readers
• International forum for the trial of war criminals of Bangladesh
• Jumma Peoples Network UK Human Rights Organisation
• 1971 Bangladesh Pakistan War Criminals
• Banglarislam
• AWAAZ – SOUTH ASIA WATCH is a UK-based secular network monitoring and combating religious hatred in South Asia and in the UK
• The website dedicated to bringing the killers of Shah AMS Kibria to justice
• www.awaazsaw.org
• http://waf.gn.apc.org/
• http://wluml.org/english/about.shtml
• http://www.drishtipat.org/london/
• Genocide of Minorities in Bangladesh
• file on collaborator Golam Azam
• Small arms in Bangladesh
• International Crisis Group reports on Bangladesh
• Bangladesh Democracy Watch
• Survival – the movement for tribal peoples
• Youth in Action on Climate (YAC)
• www.awaazsaw.org
• http://waf.gn.apc.org/
• http://wluml.org/english/about.shtml
• http://www.drishtipat.org/london/

Phulbari Action is an electronic forum to share information, discuss and strategize to resist the Phulbari Coal Project proposed by GCM Resources Plc in Bangladesh. Asian Development Bank (ADB) is scheduled to approve a loan and political risk insurance to GCM. The resistance movement is led by National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Electricity and Port.

Visit the blog: http://phulbariresistance.blogspot.com
► Campaign against open pit coal mine:

http://www.protectbdresources.org.uk/?q=links

http://phulbarisolidaritygroup.wordpress.com/

The Independence of Bangladesh in 1971:  www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/the-independence-of-bangladesh-in-1971/

Our Migration Story: www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk

Bangla Stories: www.banglastories.org

Making Britain: www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/makingbritain