Zerbanoo Gifford
| Zerbanoo Gifford | |
|---|---|
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| Born | India |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | writer, human rights campaigner |
Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and human rights campaigner of Indian origin.[1]:124 She is honorary director of the ASHA Foundation, which she founded.[1]:125
Gifford was brought from India to Britain by her parents when she was three. She was educated at Roedean School, at Watford College of Technology, at the London School of Journalism and at the Open University. Her first book, The Golden Thread, was published in 1990.[1]:124
Charitable work
Gifford has been active in charitable work. She has been a director of Anti-Slavery International and of the Charities Aid Foundation.[1]:125 She is founder of the ASHA Foundation and the ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean.[2]
Politics
In the 1980s Gifford was elected a councillor for Harrow,[3]:378 the first female Asian councillor to be elected for the Liberal Party.[1]:125 She has stood three times for Parliament.[1]:125[4] In 1986 she chaired the Liberal "Commission of Inquiry into Ethnic Minority Involvement in the Liberal Party".[1]:125 She was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by the Home Secretary.[5]
Recognition
Gifford received the Nehru Centenary Award in 1989. She was nominated for the Women of Europe Award in 1991.[1]:125 A biography of her by Farida Master, Zerbanoo Gifford: An Uncensored Life, was published in 2015.[6]
Publications
Gifford's written works include:
- The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain, 1990[7]
- Dadabhai Naoroji, Britain's First Asian MP, 1992[8]
- The Asian Presence in Europe, 1995[9]
- Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery, 1996[10]
- Foreword to Race and British Electoral Politics, 1998[11]
- Celebrating India, 1998
- South Asian Funding in the UK, 1999[12]
- Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women, 2007[13]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Alison Donnell (2002). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203194997.
- ↑ Baroness Royall of Blaisdon. "Minority Ethnic and Religious Communities: Cultural and Economic Contribution". Hansard.
- ↑ John R. Hinnells (2005). The Zoroastrian Diaspora: Religion and Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198267592.
- ↑ British Parliamentary Election results 1983–97. David Boothroyd. Accessed April 2016.
- ↑ [Home Office] (1998). Race Relations Forum. London: Home Office. Archived 16 February 2006.
- ↑ Farida Master (2015). Zerbanoo Gifford: An Uncensored Life. Uttar Pradesh, India: Harpercollins Publishers India. ISBN 9789351776369
- ↑ Zerbanoo Gifford (1990). The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain. London: Pandora Press. ISBN 9780044406051.
- ↑ Zerbanoo Gifford, Petra Röhr-Rouendaal (illustrator) (1992). Dadabhai Naoroji: Britain's First Asian M.P. London: Mantra. ISBN 9781852691417.
- ↑ Zerbanoo Gifford (1995). Asian Presence in Europe. London: Mantra. ISBN 9781852691851.
- ↑ Zerbanoo Gifford (1996). Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery. London: Anti-Slavery International. ISBN 9780900918360.
- ↑ Shamit Saggar (editor) (1998). Race and British Electoral Politics. London [u.a.]: UCL Press. ISBN 9781857288308.
- ↑ Karina Holly with Zerbanoo Gifford (1999). South Asian Funding in the UK. London: Directory of Social Change. ISBN 9781900360333.
- ↑ Zerbanoo Gifford (2007). Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women. East Grinstead: Blacker Limited in conjunction with Phact Publishing. ISBN 1897739311.