BBC History Magazine

HIDDEN HISTORIES

“Gurdip Singh Chaggar’s death shook the community deeply”

Kavita Puri is a journalist and broadcaster for BBC Radio 4 whose history series include Three Pounds in My Pocket. She is also the author of Partition Voices: Untold British Stories (Bloomsbury, 2019)

IN THE LATE SPRING OF 1976 AN 18-YEAR-OLD boy was walking at night in the Southall area of London near the Victory pub, just opposite the popular Dominion Theatre. He never made it

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