Zerbanoo Gifford
Zerbanoo Gifford | |
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Gangtok, Sikkim, India | |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | writer, human rights campaigner |
Zerbanoo Gifford is a British writer and
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[3] and of the Charities Aid Foundation.[1]: 125 She is founder of the ASHA Foundation and the ASHA Centre in the Forest of Dean.[4]
Politics
In 1982 Gifford was elected a
In 1986 she chaired the Liberal "Commission of Inquiry into Ethnic Minority Involvement in the Liberal Party".[1]: 125 Gifford was twice elected by the party's membership the Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive, the first ethnic minority person to be elected to a major UK party's supreme body.[9] She was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by then Home Secretary, Jack Straw.[10]
In 1992 Gifford co-chaired the centenary celebrations for the election of the first non-white MP, Dadabhai Naoroji.[11]
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.[12] Gifford was one of the seven former pupils who featured in Roedean school's 125 anniversary celebrations.[13]
Publications
Gifford's written works include:
- The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain, 1990[14]
- Dadabhai Naoroji, Britain's First Asian MP, 1992[15]
- The Asian Presence in Europe, 1995[16]
- Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery, 1996[17]
- Foreword to Race and British Electoral Politics, 1998[18]
- Celebrating India, 1998
- South Asian Funding in the UK, 1999[19]
- Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women, 2007[20]
References
- ^ ISBN 9780203194997.
- ^ "Office Bearers and Committee Members". World Zoroastrian Organisation.
- ^ Today with Sean O'Rourke. 26 October 2017. RTÉ. Radio 1.
- ^ Baroness Royall of Blaisdon. "Minority Ethnic and Religious Communities: Cultural and Economic Contribution". Hansard.
- ISBN 0198267592.
- ISBN 978-1857288292.
- ^ British Parliamentary Election results 1983–97. David Boothroyd. Accessed April 2016.
- ^ FitzGerald, Marian (1984). Political parties and Black people: participation, representation, and exploitation. London: Runnymede Trust.
- ISBN 978-1857288292.
- ^ [Home Office] (1998). Race Relations Forum. London: Home Office. Archived 16 February 2006.
- ^ Steel, David; Ashdown, Paddy (1992). Dadabhai Naoroji Parliamentary Centenary Celebrations. London. Mss Eur F279/10.
- ISBN 9789351776369
- ^ "Sussex Life". Roedean at 125. 26 November 2010. Retrieved 11 July 2018.
- ISBN 9780044406051.
- ISBN 9781852691417.
- ISBN 9781852691851.
- ISBN 9780900918360.
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- ISBN 9781900360333.
- ISBN 978-1897739310.