Manchester Museum says using local people as curators 'led us to stories we'd never have imagined'.
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They include Fal Sarker, grandson of quantum science pioneer Satyendra Nath Bose, whose items include letters between Bose and Einstein. "We really want to highlight that South Asians didn't just come in the 1960s and '70s," Ahmed says. "They were very much part of British life before then."A rickshaw has been decorated with Mancunian imagery as well as Bangladeshi designs
Other exhibits range from ancient pottery from the Indus Valley, to a Quran cube - an electronic speaker that recites part of the Muslim holy book - which a doctor kept next to his bed before he died from Covid-19 at the age of 32. She has chosen to tell the little-known story of Mahatma Gandhi's visit to Manchester and Lancashire in 1931, when"His arrival was very different from what people expected," Ghosh said. "He was greeted very warmly.
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