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If Limehouse was the part of London popularly associated with Chinese immigration, opium dens, Fu Manchu and other sinister orientals born of Britlit folly, where would be the equivalent nexus of influence from the Indian sub-continent?

Please don't say Neasden.

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I was having fun :)
Some very interesting material on some of those sites (I hadn't realised the extent to which inter-racial marriage was happening in the past, nor that while some people from different ethnic groups came to succeed financially/status-wise in the UK they often found they met prejudices and problems if they then went back to their country of origin).
Plus all the stuff about riots and fights was great- I did studies on riot, disorder and popular uprisings as part of an overall study of poverty and vagrancy in England from the middle ages up at University for my degree minor and love all that stuff.

I am also a big fan of those Fu Manchu stories-while they are full of stereotypes, I love the sense of desperation and mystery, and Nayland Smith and Fu Manchu are great characters-perfectly balancing each other but with both containing admirable and deplorable characteristics in equal measure.