3 June 2005

By popular demand - A return passage to India!

Following huge public interest in a recent exhibition exploring Dundee's links with India, the University of Dundee is hosting a one-day event to bring together people who have connections with the sub-continent.

The exhibition in March drew people from all over Scotland and there has been considerable demand to put it on show again. Many of the people who came to see the original exhibition had lived and worked in India in the jute industry. Some visitors renewed old friendships and others were able to point out the houses where they had lived as children!

Now Archive Services at the University are holding a one-day event to bring together those who have connections with India. The exhibition will once again be on display - for one day only - and Professor Chris Whatley will repeat his lecture on the subject of Dundee's textile connection with India.

This event will provide an opportunity for discussion on the Dundee/Indian experience, which, with participants' permission, will be recorded to launch a Dundee & India oral history archive.

The exhibition consists of items from the University's extensive jute and linen collections which have been consulted by historians throughout the world.

The event will be held on the 7th of June, from 4 -7 pm in the Baxter Conference Suite, 1st Floor, Tower Building, Nethergate, Dundee. Refreshments will be available during the event. The lecture will take place at 6pm. All welcome.

By Roddy Isles, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, r.isles@dundee.ac.uk