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| The Peak District has many secrets and many stories still to tell. Some of them are now to be teased out with the help of research on the links between the wild hills of Yorkshire and Derbyshire and British Imperial India. | The Peak District has many secrets and many stories still to tell. Some of them are now to be teased out with the help of research on the links between the wild hills of Yorkshire and Derbyshire and British Imperial India. |
| The bracketing of the UK's national parks with ethnic minority communities usually takes the form of programmes to encourage more visits by people in cities, conventionally described as 'hard to reach'. But the reaching on this occasion has come from the Hindu Samaj in Sheffield whose members brightly took note of the Heritage Lottery Fund's programme, All Our Stories. | The bracketing of the UK's national parks with ethnic minority communities usually takes the form of programmes to encourage more visits by people in cities, conventionally described as 'hard to reach'. But the reaching on this occasion has come from the Hindu Samaj in Sheffield whose members brightly took note of the Heritage Lottery Fund's programme, All Our Stories. |
| They have won a grant of £8,600 for a project called British Raj in the Peak District, with the sub-title: discovering, recovering and sharing colonial history. It will look at the way that life in the area now covered by the park – the first in the UK when it was designated in 1951, was influenced by both ideas and raw materials from British India, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. | They have won a grant of £8,600 for a project called British Raj in the Peak District, with the sub-title: discovering, recovering and sharing colonial history. It will look at the way that life in the area now covered by the park – the first in the UK when it was designated in 1951, was influenced by both ideas and raw materials from British India, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
| Working with Sheffield University's project Researching Community Heritage, the Samaj – which promotes Hindu faith and culture from classical dance to yoga for anyone interested – will look at the exchange of ideas between the city's celebrated socialist Edward Carpenter and Mahatma Gandhi and connections between the cotton industry in both countries. Dr Esme Cleall, lecturer in the history of the British Empire at Sheffield University, says: | Working with Sheffield University's project Researching Community Heritage, the Samaj – which promotes Hindu faith and culture from classical dance to yoga for anyone interested – will look at the exchange of ideas between the city's celebrated socialist Edward Carpenter and Mahatma Gandhi and connections between the cotton industry in both countries. Dr Esme Cleall, lecturer in the history of the British Empire at Sheffield University, says: |
| The connections between Britain and India, so formative in both British and Indian history, need far more investigation at a local level. This project will help to uncover and explore them. | The connections between Britain and India, so formative in both British and Indian history, need far more investigation at a local level. This project will help to uncover and explore them. |
Dr Dinesh Naik, the vice president of the Hindu Samaj who has lived in Sheffield for more than 50 years, says: | Dr Dinesh Naik, the vice president of the Hindu Samaj who has lived in Sheffield for more than 50 years, says: |
| Many of us who have been settled here for a couple of generations have little or no idea about local connections to the country of our birth. We are looking forward to finding out more about people such as Edward Carpenter who made some of these connections. | Many of us who have been settled here for a couple of generations have little or no idea about local connections to the country of our birth. We are looking forward to finding out more about people such as Edward Carpenter who made some of these connections. |
| Understanding history will be empowering and fulfilling for the Hindu and Indian community in Sheffield and building a shared understanding with the wider community on this subject will be a great learning and sharing experience, as well as promoting community cohesion and wellbeing. | Understanding history will be empowering and fulfilling for the Hindu and Indian community in Sheffield and building a shared understanding with the wider community on this subject will be a great learning and sharing experience, as well as promoting community cohesion and wellbeing. |
Fiona Spiers, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Yorkshire and the Humber, is pleased too. She says: | Fiona Spiers, head of the Heritage Lottery Fund in Yorkshire and the Humber, is pleased too. She says: |
| We are a nation of story-tellers who like to explore and dig deeper into our past and find out what really matters to us. This is what the grant will do for the British Raj in the Peak District community group as they embark on a real journey of discovery. | We are a nation of story-tellers who like to explore and dig deeper into our past and find out what really matters to us. This is what the grant will do for the British Raj in the Peak District community group as they embark on a real journey of discovery. |
| Other All Our Stories projects under way in Sheffield include a study of the musical heritage of South Yorkshire's Bangladeshi and Indian communities, the arrival of Irish immigrants in Sheffield, the history of a row of Georgian houses in Highfield by formerly homeless and vulnerable young people who now live in them, and the story of a Second World War prison camp in the Dearne Valley and what happened to those who guarded and and were guarded there. | Other All Our Stories projects under way in Sheffield include a study of the musical heritage of South Yorkshire's Bangladeshi and Indian communities, the arrival of Irish immigrants in Sheffield, the history of a row of Georgian houses in Highfield by formerly homeless and vulnerable young people who now live in them, and the story of a Second World War prison camp in the Dearne Valley and what happened to those who guarded and and were guarded there. |
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