In the news: Professor Anindita Ghosh

23 Mar 2023

Read coverage about the Manchester Museum display of Gandhi’s visit to Darwen in 1931.

Professor Anindita Ghosh, in her capacity as co-curator of the newly opened South Asia Gallery at Manchester Museum, has been in conversation with national and international news outlets.

Her display of Gandhi’s visit to Darwen in 1931 draws attention to the local links between Manchester and Empire, the supremacy of cotton in forging these links and the unusual relationship between Gandhi and the Manchester mill workers when he visited.

You can read this coverage here:

• Manchester Museum's £15m revamp puts spotlight on South Asian culture - BBC News
• Reopened Manchester Museum gives voice to south Asian diaspora | Manchester | The Guardian
• New gallery at UK museum gives voice to South Asian diaspora | Mumbai News - Times of India (indiatimes.com)