This study is a vivid, ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford from after World War II to the present day.

From Pakistan to Britain, the process of settlement, households and family relationships, the idiom of caste, Biradari solidarity and cousin marriage, honour and shame - gender and generation, health illness and the reproduction of the Biradari, taking and giving - domestic rituals and female networks, public faces - leadership, religion and political mobilization