The UC Santa Barbara Undergraduate Journal of History

This paper attempts to answer questions about class and race regarding that South Asians navigated while they resided in England. The paper delves into two groups of South Asian men: lascars (seamen) and more affluent South Asian men. It analyzes if the differences between classes were more critical than that of ethnicity, asks how these different demographics interacted with the white population of England and explains how each demographic navigated life throughout their time in Britain. The basis of this paper attempts to compare the difference of all these questions between different demographics to determine what role class played in a world dictated by white supremacy, specifically for South Asians in the very racialized environment that the British Empire created, specifically in the metropole.