Research projects

British Hinduism Oral History Project

Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund

A research project conceived and developed in the OCHS to record the experiences of Hindus who have settled in Britain. The project was a valuable opportunity to record and preserve this unique aspect of Hindu culture and British history. The project involved conducting and recording interviews with Hindus who migrated to Britain from other countries around the world. The BHOHP received Heritage Lottery funding and the results of this ground-breaking work will be made accessible to scholars and researchers for future studies and publications.

BHOHP team members ... more

Project launch, Indian High Commission 2001 ... more

Project overview, by Shalini Sharma 2002 ... more

Oral History travelling exhibition 2004 ... more

British Hinduism Oral History display panels ... here

Final report on the Project, December 2004 ... more

Oral History interview examples

Interview examples are all in RealPlayer format. If you need to download Real Player you can get it for free from Real.com

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The full transcriptions of 300 interviews will be available soon plus researchers will have the opportunity to download some examples of complete interviews and purchase a CD rom with all 300 interviews in MP3 format.