Seventy years after the Blitz: Remembering early Sikh Londoners

As Britons remember the dark days of the German blitz on London on the 70th anniversary of the commencement of the bombing raids that changed the London landscape and terrified the populace for months, we recall some of the earliest Sikh families living in London at the time. Like every other London family these pioneer migrants took shelter in underground stations, the crypts of churches and in improvised shelters.

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