Advisory Group

Meet the Remembering Partition advisory board

Sadiya Ahmed

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Sadiya Ahmed is a Freelance Heritage Consultant. She established Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative in 2013 in response to the lack of representation of the Muslim narrative in archives, museums, and education in Britain. There are three archive collections consisting of; oral history interviews, personal documents, photographs, and ephemera held at five archive depositories across London and the South-East. Currently, she is developing a digital history map of Muslim history in Britain.

Jasvir Singh

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Jasvir is a prolific community activist and leading figure in the British South Asian community. He’s a practising family law barrister and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day. He’s a trustee and patron of several regional and national charities within the faith and minorities sector, including City Sikhs and the Faiths Forum for London. He is also the Co-Founder of South Asian Heritage Month, an annual awareness month which celebrates and commemorates South Asian arts, culture, history and identity. He was awarded an OBE in 2017 and a CBE in 2023 for his extensive community work.

Chetna Kapacee

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Sarah Ansari

Sarah Ansari is a historian of South Asia at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research and teaching explore the impact of Partition over the short and longer terms. She is a former academic member of the Partition History Project and former Co-Chair of the Partition Education Project. Her latest monograph—with William Gould, Boundaries of Belonging; Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan (2019)—explores intersections between localities, citizenship and rights as these played out in the years immediately following Independence and Partition. She is currently President of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Bhupinder Singh Bhasin

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Bhupinder Singh Bhasin is the President of the Pothohar Association UK which produced the Children of Partition oral history documentary and the Rekindling Pothohar Exhibition exploring the origins of the Sikh community in the Pothohar region of West Punjab and how this community was dispersed after the Partition of India. ThePothohar.com
He is also a Trustee of the Youth Inter Faith Trust and active in many Sikh faith organisations.