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	'''Dhani Ram Prem''' (1904–1979) was a naturalized British political activist, social worker and physician of Indian origin.<ref name="Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/103/101103441/ \| title=Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary \| publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem">{{cite web \| url=http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html \| title=Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem \| publisher=Midland News \| date=10 July 1968 \| access-date=23 June 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623220229/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html \| archive-date=23 June 2015 \| url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham">{{cite web \| url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/biography-history-and-the-shaping-of-birmingham/ \| title=Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham \| publisher=The Iron Room \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was the first councillor of [[Asian people\|Asian]] origin of [[Birmingham]], representing the [[Labour Party (UK)\|Labour Party]] at [[Great Barr]], in south [[Staffordshire]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor">{{cite web \| url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/dhaniprem \| title=Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor \| publisher=Birmingham City Council \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1977,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|title=Padma Shri \|publisher=Padma Shri \|date=2015 \|access-date=18 June 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://~~www~~.~~webcitation~~.org/~~6U68ulwpb?url=~~http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|archive-date=15 ~~November 2014~~ }}</ref> making him the first [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin\|non resident Indian]] to receive the award.<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio">{{cite web \| url=http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 \| title=Dhani Prem CH Bio \| publisher=Connecting Histories \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623212944/http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 \| archive-date=23 June 2015 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>		'''Dhani Ram Prem''' (1904–1979) was a naturalized British political activist, social worker and physician of Indian origin.<ref name="Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary">{{cite web \| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/103/101103441/ \| title=Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary \| publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem">{{cite web \| url=http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html \| title=Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem \| publisher=Midland News \| date=10 July 1968 \| access-date=23 June 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623220229/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html \| archive-date=23 June 2015 \| url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham">{{cite web \| url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/biography-history-and-the-shaping-of-birmingham/ \| title=Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham \| publisher=The Iron Room \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was the first councillor of [[Asian people\|Asian]] origin of [[Birmingham]], representing the [[Labour Party (UK)\|Labour Party]] at [[Great Barr]], in south [[Staffordshire]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor">{{cite web \| url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/dhaniprem \| title=Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor \| publisher=Birmingham City Council \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1977,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web \|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|title=Padma Shri \|publisher=Padma Shri \|date=2015 \|access-date=18 June 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf \|archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> making him the first [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin\|non resident Indian]] to receive the award.<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio">{{cite web \| url=http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 \| title=Dhani Prem CH Bio \| publisher=Connecting Histories \| date=2015 \| access-date=23 June 2015 \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623212944/http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 \| archive-date=23 June 2015 \| url-status=dead }}</ref>

	==Biography==		==Biography==
	Dhani Prem was born in 1904 in [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh\|Aligarh]] in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> and lost his parents before he turned two.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JSJAgAAQBAJ&q=Dr+Dhani+Prem&pg=PA58 \| title=Race, Politics and Social Change \| publisher=Routledge \| author=Les Back, John Solomos \| year=2002 \| pages=248 \| isbn=9781134885268}}</ref> He was brought up by his uncle and did not get proper early education.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> He worked as an errand boy, lived in a library after running away from his uncle's house and taught himself from the library books.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he became involved in Indian freedom struggle after getting influenced by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was imprisoned twice by the age of 14.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /><ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" />		Dhani Prem was born in 1904 in [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh\|Aligarh]] in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> and lost his parents before he turned two.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change">{{cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JSJAgAAQBAJ&q=Dr+Dhani+Prem&pg=PA58 \| title=Race, Politics and Social Change \| publisher=Routledge \| author=Les Back, John Solomos \| year=2002 \| pages=248 \| isbn=9781134885268}}</ref> He was brought up by his uncle and did not get proper early education.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> He worked as an errand boy, lived in a library after running away from his uncle's house and taught himself from the library books.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he became involved in Indian freedom struggle after getting influenced by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was imprisoned twice by the age of 14.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /><ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" />

	Prem graduated in medicine from the [[Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital]], Mumbai<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> and secured his LRCP and MRCS degrees<ref name="Honorary Graduates of the University">{{cite web\|url=http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ \|title=Honorary Graduates of the University \|publisher=Aston University \|date=2015 \|access-date=23 June 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722081213/http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ \|archive-date=22 July 2015 }}</ref> from the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and [[~~Kings~~ College Hospital]] in London respectively.<ref name="Old stories, new histories">{{cite web \| url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/author/macgregorrachel/page/2/ \| title=Old stories, new histories \| publisher=The Iron Roo \| date=28 October 2013 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> Returning to India during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, he failed to find a job as a medical practitioner and had to work as an editor of a literary magazine by name, ''Chand''.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he wrote stories and was reported to have been a successful writer. By this time, he got married and moved to London in 1938<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> with his wife and daughter for a one-year stay but had to stay back due to [[World War II]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He found work as a general practitioner in Birmingham in 1939<ref name="Old stories, new histories" /> and stayed at [[Gosta Green]], [[Aston]], England for 40 years till his return to India in 1978, about a year before his death.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />		Prem graduated in medicine from the [[Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital]], Mumbai<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> and secured his LRCP and MRCS degrees<ref name="Honorary Graduates of the University">{{cite web\|url=http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ \|title=Honorary Graduates of the University \|publisher=Aston University \|date=2015 \|access-date=23 June 2015 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722081213/http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ \|archive-date=22 July 2015 }}</ref> from the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and [[King's College Hospital]] in London respectively.<ref name="Old stories, new histories">{{cite web \| url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/author/macgregorrachel/page/2/ \| title=Old stories, new histories \| publisher=The Iron Roo \| date=28 October 2013 \| access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> Returning to India during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, he failed to find a job as a medical practitioner and had to work as an editor of a literary magazine by name, ''Chand''.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he wrote stories and was reported to have been a successful writer. By this time, he got married and moved to London in 1938<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> with his wife and daughter for a one-year stay but had to stay back due to [[World War II]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He found work as a general practitioner in Birmingham in 1939<ref name="Old stories, new histories" /> and stayed at [[Gosta Green]], [[Aston]], England for 40 years till his return to India in 1978, about a year before his death.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />

	Dhani Ram Prem died on 11 November 1979, at the age of 75, succumbing to the injuries sustained in a road accident.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />		Dhani Ram Prem died on 11 November 1979, at the age of 75, succumbing to the injuries sustained in a road accident.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />

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'''Dhani Ram Prem''' (1904–1979) was a naturalized British political activist, social worker and physician of Indian origin.<ref name="Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary">{{cite web | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/103/101103441/ | title=Dhani Prem Oxford Dictionary | publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem">{{cite web | url=http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html | title=Midlands News: 10.07.1968: Interview with Dhani Prem | publisher=Midland News | date=10 July 1968 | access-date=23 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623220229/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html | archive-date=23 June 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham">{{cite web | url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/biography-history-and-the-shaping-of-birmingham/ | title=Biography, History and the Shaping of Birmingham | publisher=The Iron Room | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was the first councillor of [[Asian people|Asian]] origin of [[Birmingham]], representing the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] at [[Great Barr]], in south [[Staffordshire]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor">{{cite web | url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/dhaniprem | title=Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor | publisher=Birmingham City Council | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He was awarded the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] by the [[Government of India]] in 1977,<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |access-date=18 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> making him the first [[Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin|non resident Indian]] to receive the award.<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio">{{cite web | url=http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 | title=Dhani Prem CH Bio | publisher=Connecting Histories | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623212944/http://www.search.connectinghistories.org.uk/engine/resource/exhibition/standard/child.asp?txtKeywords=ex002&lstContext=&lstResourceType=-1&lstExhibitionType=&chkPurchaseVisible=&txtDateFrom=&txtDateTo=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&scale=&theme=&album=&resource=2143&viewpage=%2Fengine%2Fresource%2Fexhibition%2Fstandard%2Fdefault.asp&originator=%2Fengine%2Fsearch%2Fdefault_hndlr.asp&page=1&records=9&direction=1&pointer=425&text=0&exhibition=1602&offset=0 | archive-date=23 June 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Biography==
Dhani Prem was born in 1904 in [[Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh|Aligarh]] in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> and lost his parents before he turned two.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JSJAgAAQBAJ&q=Dr+Dhani+Prem&pg=PA58 | title=Race, Politics and Social Change | publisher=Routledge | author=Les Back, John Solomos | year=2002 | pages=248 | isbn=9781134885268}}</ref> He was brought up by his uncle and did not get proper early education.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> He worked as an errand boy, lived in a library after running away from his uncle's house and taught himself from the library books.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he became involved in Indian freedom struggle after getting influenced by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] and was imprisoned twice by the age of 14.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /><ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" />

Prem graduated in medicine from the [[Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital]], Mumbai<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> and secured his LRCP and MRCS degrees<ref name="Honorary Graduates of the University">{{cite web|url=http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ |title=Honorary Graduates of the University |publisher=Aston University |date=2015 |access-date=23 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722081213/http://www.aston.ac.uk/about/history/honorary-graduates/ |archive-date=22 July 2015 }}</ref> from the [[Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh]] and [[Kings College Hospital]] in London respectively.<ref name="Old stories, new histories">{{cite web | url=https://theironroom.wordpress.com/author/macgregorrachel/page/2/ | title=Old stories, new histories | publisher=The Iron Roo | date=28 October 2013 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> Returning to India during the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s, he failed to find a job as a medical practitioner and had to work as an editor of a literary magazine by name, ''Chand''.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he wrote stories and was reported to have been a successful writer. By this time, he got married and moved to London in 1938<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /> with his wife and daughter for a one-year stay but had to stay back due to [[World War II]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He found work as a general practitioner in Birmingham in 1939<ref name="Old stories, new histories" /> and stayed at [[Gosta Green]], [[Aston]], England for 40 years till his return to India in 1978, about a year before his death.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />

Dhani Ram Prem died on 11 November 1979, at the age of 75, succumbing to the injuries sustained in a road accident.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />

==Political and social career==
Prem spent three years in Edinburgh and the rest in Birmingham and worked as a general practitioner among the British working class.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> During this period, he published a booklet based on the Indian freedom movement, ''Indian National Congress'' which was released in 1945.<ref name="Indian National Congress">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Indian-National-Congress-Dhani-Prem/dp/B0007K4ETQ | title=Indian National Congress | publisher=Indian Publications | author=Dhani Ram Prem | year=1945 | asin=B0007K4ETQ}}</ref> He joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and became involved with the [[British Medical Association]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> In 1946, he contested the Birmingham council elections and was elected from [[Great Barr]] constituency representing Labour Party, the first person of [[Asian people|Asian]] origin to become a councilor in Birmingham,<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" /><ref name="The First Asian City Councillor Dr Dhani Prem">{{cite web | url=http://historywm.com/wp-content/uploads/issue2/pp19-23_Curthoys_Migration.pdf | title=The First Asian City Councillor Dr Dhani Prem | publisher=History WM | date=2015 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> a post he held through two elections till 1950.<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> Apart from being a councilor, he was a member of the Health Committee and the Committee for Mental Hospitals. He was also involved with the issue of immigrants when the influx of immigrants began in the early 1950s.<ref name="Old stories, new histories" /> He founded the Indian Immigrant Council in 1953 to assist the immigrants to integrate themselves into British mainstream. When the Ugandan immigrants started to arrive in the 1960s, he established the Uganda Relief Trust and became its trustee.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> The immigrant issue was one of the main themes of his 1964 election contest.<ref name="Dhani Prem CH Bio" />

In the 1955, Prem founded the ''Commonwealth Welfare Council'' composed of bus conductors in the wake of racial discrimination of two bus conductors by the trade unionists in [[West Bromwich]] and Birmingham. He also established an ''Indian Advisory Council for the UK'' for assisting the Indian immigrants to the UK.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He dissociated himself from the Labour Party<ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> in 1968 in protest against the expulsion of Kenyans Asians and joined the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]], becoming a member of their National Council.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He contested two elections in [[Coventry South]] as a Liberal Party candidate in 1970<ref name="Black and Ethnic Leaderships">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=je-IAgAAQBAJ&q=Dr+Dhani+Prem&pg=PA37 | title=Black and Ethnic Leaderships | publisher=Routledge | author-link=Pnina Werbner | author=Pnina Werbner | year=2009 | pages=250 | isbn=9781134965694}}</ref> and 1974<ref name="The First Asian City Councillor Dr Dhani Prem" /> but both the attempts were unsuccessful.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /><ref name="Race, Politics and Social Change" /> He also published a book in 1965, ''The Parliamentary Leper: a history of colour prejudice in Britain'' detailing the racial issues in Britain.<ref name="The Parliamentary Leper: a history of colour prejudice in Britain">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yOgxAQAAIAAJ | title=The Parliamentary Leper: a history of colour prejudice in Britain | publisher=Metric Publications | author=D. R. Prem | year=1965 | pages=177}}</ref>

Prem was the president of the ''Asian Conference'', a society of the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK. He was associated with the Race Relations Council of Birmingham as a member and was the chairman of the Midlands India League and the Finance subcommittee of the Coleshill Group of Hospitals.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> He also set up a trust for the education of young women and a primary health centre in his home town of [[Aligarh]].<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> His efforts were reported behind the establishment of a local radio station and served as an advisor to the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]] for their Asian programmes.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" />

Prem was also involved in a controversy when he advocated for the sterilization of coloured wives to protect the country from the proliferation of coloured people.<ref name="Sterilizing of Coloured Wives Urged">{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19650328&id=OjlWAAAAIBAJ&pg=7406,3637434&hl=en | title=Sterilizing of Coloured Wives Urged | publisher=The Spokesman Review | date=28 March 1965 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref> He urged the local health authorities to implement the plan.<ref name="Sterilizing of Coloured Wives Urged" /> Sterilization was a birth control method practised in India at that time but the suggestion invited widespread criticism in England.<ref name="The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri · Page 24">{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51212559/ | title=The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri · Page 24 | publisher=The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri · Page 24 | date=25 January 1965 | access-date=23 June 2015}}</ref>

==Awards and honours==
It was reported that Prem was selected for the British honour of the [[Order of the British Empire]] which he declined because he considered the honour to be imperial in nature.<ref name="Dr Dhani Prem - Birmingham's first Asian Councillor" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] in 1977,<ref name="Padma Shri" /> making him the first overseas Indian to receive the award. He received a doctoral degree (DSc honoris causa) from the [[Aston University]] in 1978.<ref name="Honorary Graduates of the University" />

==See also==
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* [[Great Barr]]
* [[King's College Hospital]]
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | title=Indian National Congress | publisher=Indian Publications | author=Dhani Ram Prem | year=1945 | asin=B0007K4ETQ}}
* {{cite book | title=The Parliamentary Leper: a history of colour prejudice in Britain | publisher=Metric Publications | author=D. R. Prem | year=1965 | pages=177}}

==External links==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html | title=Interview with Dhani Prem | publisher=Midland News | date=10 July 1968 | access-date=23 June 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623220229/http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/midlands-news-10071968-interview-with-dhani-prem/MediaEntry/12084.html | archive-date=23 June 2015 | url-status=dead }}
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[[Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh]]
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[[Category:People from Great Barr]]
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[[Category:Medical doctors from Uttar Pradesh]]
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