Based at Dudhope Multicultural Centre, the Bharatiya Ashram is a unique cultural organisation that promotes all cultures from the...

Having attended a “recognised Indian University” was not enough for a student to be accepted at Dundee’s Medical School. The Faculty of...

Year photograph of students at University College Dundee in 1923, including several Indian students (image from University of Dundee Archives) The 1920s saw a significant rise in the number of Indian students coming to study at Dundee’s Medical School (then part of the University of St Andrews). 23 students from India are recorded in the Matriculation Registers during this period, compared to just eight in the previous decade. Seeking to ensure that those students who were aw

Charles Kasaja Stokes was the son of Nanjala Malyamu Magudaleene and Charles Henry Stokes, an Irish missionary-turned-salesman in East...

“Dundee will have a Chinese restaurant” was the bold claim of a Courier headline on 8 November 1960, after the Corporation Planning...

Once upon a time, in Scotland’s second city of the Empire, there was an estate called Logie, and it was home to the Read family. Logie,...

In the 1930s and 40s Dundee was temporarily home to three major names in Caribbean Jazz. The story starts in 1938, when the Palace...

A young boy, whose own name has never been determined, was transported by slave traders from Guinea on the west coast of Africa to...