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Asha Bhattacharya ran education classes with Mrs J. Handoo and Indian students for the India League's East End branch. These took place at Ayub Ali's cafe, the Shah Jolal Restaurant.

Visram, Rozina, Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History (London: Pluto Press, 2002)

L/PJ/12/455-6, India Office Records, Asian and African Studies Reading Room, British Library, St Pancras

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