Rethinking Windrush - transatlantic Indo-Caribbean experiences

Posted: Wednesday 1st April 2026

Event Date: Tuesday 21 April 

Location: Online

Organisers: Royal Museums Greenwich

This talk is part of the 2025/6 series of the Maritime History and Culture Seminars. 

This seminar will introduce the Indo-Caribbean Windrush Oral History Project, which centres Indo-Caribbeans who immigrated to Britain during the Windrush era in the decades following the Second World War. The project explores and preserves the often-overlooked history of British Indo-Caribbeans, and the complex narratives of migration, identity and heritage connected to Windrush and South Asia. 

About the speakers

Meena Venkataramanan is a joint doctoral student in English at Brown University and law student at Yale Law School. Her work is situated at the intersection of contemporary Asian and Black diaspora literature and legal theory, particularly in the United Kingdom, Anglophone Caribbean, and United States.

Jeevan Kaur Sanghera is a historian and heritage professional working with archives, communities and museums in London and Manchester. Her research explores the intersections of Black and South Asian diasporic relations across historical and geographical contexts, particularly in East Africa, the Caribbean and Britain.

Please join using the link on the seminar webpage. 

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