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Tandana – Archiving a struggle for social and political rights

This digitised archive has been created to record the political ephemera produced by the Asian Youth Movements. The majority of the material did not belong to any archive but existed in precarious conditions in community centres and homes. In digitising this material we aim to preserve it for future generations to learn about the experiences and actions of young South Asians growing up in the towns and cities of Britain in the 1970s and 1980s.

Since the production of this digital archive, some of the extant materials have been donated to the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive, Manchester.

Books based on the archive:

Films and Videos based on the archive:

Watch the film Rebellion

Watch Kala Tara (Full Video)

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The Tandana Archive contains hundreds of digitised documents, photographs, and records from the Asian Youth Movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
Register to explore the complete collection. This archive is run by volunteers. In order to maintain the website, we now need to charge a small fee.

For access there is an annual registration fee:
Students and unemployed – £5 per year
Academics – £30 per year
Organisations – £100 per year
A fair use policy will apply.

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