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In trying to identify some of the earliest Muslim students to matriculate at the University after the enactment of the...

Trinity College

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Oxford Martin School

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Brothers Wasif Ali and Naseer Ali Mirza became the first racialised minority and Indian students to be enrolled at Trinity College in 1893. Despite their status – Wasif was the heir of the Nawab of Murshidabad, a title which he eventually held from 1906–1959 – they were required to live out of college accommodation on the grounds of being ‘Mohammedan’, or Muslim. Neither brother took a degree.

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Aleena Din - Aleena is a historian of gender, class and race in modern Britain. Her DPhil research, which was completed at Balliol College and the Faculty of History in 2022, focuses on the migration, settlement and labour experiences of working-class British-Pakistani women who settled in Middlesbrough and Oldham between 1962 and 2002. Aleena is the co-investigator of the community history project 'A Muslim History of Oxford', in collaboration with the national heritage organisation 'Everyday Muslim'. In addition, she is a postdoctoral research associate for the digital humanities project, 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830 to the Present' at the University of Bristol (2025).

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