Black Lives Matter protests: London’s Southall road to be renamed Guru Nanak Road ~ WIC News
The Ealing Council is preparing to rename Havelock Road – named after Henry Havelock, general in the colonial army involved in suppressing the 1857 Uprising in India – as Guru Nanak Road, as London reviews public spaces following the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.
The Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha is located on Havelock Road in Southall, which has long had a significant presence of people of Indian origin. Its MP, senior Labour leader Virendra Sharma, welcomed the council’s decision.
He said: “I welcome the decision by Ealing Council to rename Havelock Road – decolonising our streets finally. As the Member of Parliament for Ealing Southall and a councillor for 25 years before that, I have often been ashamed the names of empire still pervade our streets”.
“I have long campaigned for schools to teach more about our Imperial past, not just the great strides made but also the shameful thuggery and violence, names like Havelock belong in books, classrooms and museums, not on the streets to be celebrated”.
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