Queen Victoria loved a curry, but it took the entrepreneurial efforts of South Asian migrants for it to become part of the British diet. How did it go from Windsor Castle to M&S ready meals and Dishoom?

Ros Taylor looks at how curry got political with historian Shrabani Basu and Professor Anand Menon of King’s College, London.

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Show Notes

Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London and the director of The UK in a Changing Europe.

Shrabani Basu is the author of Victoria & Abdul: The Extraordinary True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant.

Lord Soper’s speech is on Hansard.

I am also grateful to Nishah Malik for the extract from London Life magazine.