The following database includes information about the international and imperial networks of women attending the University of Oxford, with a specific focus on networks linking British India and the metropole in the period 1920-30.

Thus far, the database includes the Indian, other Asian/non-Western, and Anglo-Indian students who attend St. Anne’s College [then, the Society for Home Students] from 1891-1940. Biographical information is taken from the St. Anne’s Registers 1-5; in some cases, additional references are drawn from other St. Anne’s archival sources. The “Indian students” tab includes all students with a presumed Indian ethnic background (including Hindu, Muslim, and Christian students, and any Indian students born outside of British India). The “Anglo-Indian students” tab refers to students belonging to British families that had settled in colonial India, not to students from a mixed-race background, referred to instead as Eurasian (of whom there is regrettably little information in the Registers, as one would expect, given that these relationships were banned in the aftermath of the Revolt of 1857 in British India). The “Asian students” tab includes women from elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific Islands who attended, not solely India, including women from Chinese, Japanese, and Maori backgrounds.

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