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Neelam Gill is the first British Indian model to feature as a high fashion model. [91] Supriya Lele is a British Indian fashion designer who blends her heritage into her work. [92] Priya Ahluwalia is a British designer of Nigerian and Indian descent and the founder of menswear brand Ahluwalia and was given the Queen Elizabeth II Award for ...
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Homai Vyarawalla (9 December 1913 – 15 January 2012), commonly known by her pseudonym Dalda 13, was India's first woman photojournalist. [1] [2] She began her career in 1938 working for the Bombay Chronicle, capturing images of daily life in the city. Vyarawalla worked for the British Information Services from the 1940s until 1970 when she ...
Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mahatma Gandhi. She devoted her life to human development and the advancement of Gandhi's principles.
Pages in category "Actresses from British India" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Annie Besant (née Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist and campaigner for Indian nationalism. [1] [2] She was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule. [1] She became the first female president of the Indian National ...
Muthulakshmi Reddy (also spelled Reddi in some British Indian sources; 30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968) was an Indian medical practitioner, social reformer and Padma Bhushan award recipient. [1] [2] Muthulakshmi Reddy was appointed to the Madras Legislative Council in 1926. [3]
Dean Mahomed (1759–1851), British Indian traveller and writer originally from Patna in modern-day Bihar [1] Elizabeth Sharaf un-Nisa (1758–1822), Mughal noble married into the aristocratic Ducarel family.