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I'm Kavita Puri and this is the second episode of three pounds in my pocket.

In the first program we heard the untold stories of the men and women who came from the

Indian subcontinent to post-war Britain. These children of the Raj spoke of their first

steps in the land of their former colonial ruler.

I came to UK on 14th in November 1959.

My father, Ravi Dutpuri, still has the passport he came with on that day.

The government of India wouldn't give more than a few pounds to each person.

They normally give three pounds.

It's not much, is it, to start a life. It was quite a sum at that time, but not to live here.

Many like my father arrived with a few pounds in their pocket, in many cases as little as

three pounds, less than ten dollars at the time. Strict currency rules wouldn't allow

them to bring in more. We pick up their story where we left them,

England 1968. The year when legislation recognized significant rights for minorities,

but also a time when the voices against immigration grew stronger.

In the next hour we chart that burgeoning movement against foreigners, the vandalism, verbal

abuse, vicious attacks and even murder.

And we see the fight back from a newly empowered second generation. How hot you want it? As hot as you can make it.

Kulant Selie had come in 1954 from Calcutta with three pounds.

By 1968 he's married and was prospering enough as an electrical engineer to go home buying in an affluent area of London.

We saw one house and we lacked it very much. It was like a dream house.

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