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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Diane Taylor

Oxford historian faces deportation from UK after doing research on India … in India

Manikarnika Dutta in her home in south London. She has lived in the UK for 12 years.
Manikarnika Dutta. She has lived in the UK for 12 years. Photograph: Andy Hall/The Observer

A high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives stored in India.

Manikarnika Dutta, 37, a historian, conducted the research as part of her academic commitments to the University of Oxford, which involved studying archives in cities in India and attending a series of international conferences.

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