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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|05|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Gangtok, Sikkim|Gangtok]], [[Sikkim]], India
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| nationality = British
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| occupation = writer, [[human rights]] campaigner
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'''Zerbanoo Gifford''' is a British writer and [[human rights]] campaigner of Indian [[Zoroastrian]]<ref>[http://www.projects.law.manchester.ac.uk/religion-law-and-the-constitution/zerbanoo-and-mark-gifford/ "Zerbanoo and Mark Gifford"], Religion, law and the constitution, The University of Manchester.</ref> origin.{{r|alison|page=124}} She is honorary director of the ASHA Foundation, which she founded.{{r|alison|page=125}}

Gifford was brought from India to Britain by her parents when she was three. She was educated at [[Roedean School]], at [[West Herts College|Watford College of Technology]], at the [[London School of Journalism]] and at the [[Open University]]. Her first book, ''The Golden Thread'', was published in 1990.{{r|alison|page=124}}

== Charitable work ==
Gifford has been active in charitable work. She has been a director of [[Anti-Slavery International]]<ref>{{Cite episode |series= Today with Sean O'Rourke|network= RTÉ |station= Radio 1 |date= 26 October 2017}}</ref> and of the [[Charities Aid Foundation]].{{r|alison|page=125}} She is founder of the ASHA Foundation and the ASHA Centre in the [[Forest of Dean]].<ref name="HL Deb, 24 May 2012, c871">{{cite web|last=Baroness Royall of Blaisdon|title=Minority Ethnic and Religious Communities: Cultural and Economic Contribution|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201213/ldhansrd/text/120524-0001.htm#12052458000086|publisher=Hansard}}</ref>

== Politics ==

In 1982 Gifford was elected a [[borough council|councillor]] for [[London Borough of Harrow|Harrow]],{{r|john|page=378}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Saggar |first=Shamit |date=1998 |title=Race and British Electoral Politics |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1857288292 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/racebritishelect00sagg }}</ref> the first female Asian councillor to be elected for the [[Liberal Party]].{{r|alison|page=125}} She has stood three times for Parliament,{{r|alison|page=125|demon}} [[Hertsmere (UK Parliament constituency)|Hertsmere]] in 1983 (Liberal/SDP Alliance) and 1992 (Liberal Democrat), and [[Harrow East (UK Parliament constituency)|Harrow East]] (Liberal/SDP Alliance) in 1987. By standing in 1983, she became one of the first three Asian women to stand for Parliament along with Rita Austin (Labour, [[St Albans (UK Parliament constituency)|St Albans]]) and Pramila Le Hunte (Conservative, [[Birmingham Ladywood (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham Ladywood]]).<ref>{{cite book |last=FitzGerald |first=Marian |date=1984 |title=Political parties and Black people: participation, representation, and exploitation |location=London |publisher=Runnymede Trust }}</ref>

In 1986 she chaired the Liberal "Commission of Inquiry into Ethnic Minority Involvement in the Liberal Party".{{r|alison|page=125}} Gifford was twice elected by the party's membership the Liberal Democrats' [[Federal Board (Liberal Democrats)|Federal Executive]], the first ethnic minority person to be elected to a major UK party's supreme body.<ref>{{cite book |last=Saggar |first=Shamit |date=1998 |title=Race and British Electoral Politics |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1857288292 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/racebritishelect00sagg }}</ref> She was a member of the Race Relations Forum set up in 1998 by then [[Home Secretary]], [[Jack Straw]].{{r|ho}}

In 1992 Gifford co-chaired the centenary celebrations for the election of the first non-white MP, [[Dadabhai Naoroji]].<ref>{{cite conference |url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/cfdde8e9-40dd-460b-9ee0-c1ba184cf640 |title=Dadabhai Naoroji Parliamentary Centenary Celebrations |last1=Steel |first1=David |last2=Ashdown |first2=Paddy |date=1992 |location=London |id=Mss Eur F279/10 }}</ref>

== Recognition ==
Gifford received the [[Nehru Centenary Award]] in 1989. She was nominated for the [[Women of Europe Award]] in 1991.{{r|alison|page=125}} A biography of her by Farida Master, ''Zerbanoo Gifford: An Uncensored Life'', was published in 2015.{{r|farida}} Gifford was one of the seven former pupils who featured in Roedean school's 125 anniversary celebrations.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Sussex Life |url= http://www.sussexlife.co.uk/people/roedean-at-125-1-1885644|work=Roedean at 125 |date=26 November 2010 |access-date= 11 July 2018}}</ref>

== Publications ==
[[File:ZerbanooGifford GS.jpg|thumb|At the launch of her book ''The Golden Thread'']]

Gifford's written works include:
*''The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain'', 1990<ref>{{cite book|last=Zerbanoo Gifford |title=The Golden Thread: Asian Experiences of Post-Raj Britain |year=1990 |publisher=Pandora Press |location=London |isbn=9780044406051}}</ref>
*''[[Dadabhai Naoroji]], Britain's First Asian MP'', 1992<ref>{{cite book|last=Zerbanoo Gifford, Petra Röhr-Rouendaal (illustrator) |title=Dadabhai Naoroji: Britain's First Asian M.P.|year=1992|publisher=Mantra|location=London|isbn=9781852691417}}</ref>
*''The Asian Presence in Europe'', 1995<ref>{{cite book|last=Zerbanoo Gifford|title=Asian Presence in Europe|year=1995|publisher=Mantra|location=London|isbn=9781852691851}}</ref>
*''[[Thomas Clarkson]] and the Campaign against Slavery'', 1996<ref>{{cite book|last=Zerbanoo Gifford|title=Thomas Clarkson and the Campaign against Slavery|year=1996|publisher=[[Anti-Slavery International]]|location=London|isbn=9780900918360}}</ref>
*Foreword to ''Race and British Electoral Politics'', 1998<ref>{{cite book|last=[[Shamit Saggar]] (editor)|title=Race and British Electoral Politics|year=1998|publisher=UCL Press|location=London [u.a.]|isbn=9781857288308|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/racebritishelect00sagg}}</ref>
*''Celebrating India'', 1998
*''South Asian Funding in the UK'', 1999<ref>{{cite book|last=Karina Holly with Zerbanoo Gifford|title=South Asian Funding in the UK|year=1999|publisher=Directory of Social Change|location=London|isbn=9781900360333}}</ref>
*''Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women'', 2007<ref>{{cite book|last=Zerbanoo Gifford |title=Confessions to a Serial Womaniser: Secrets of the World's Inspirational Women|year=2007|publisher=Blacker Limited in conjunction with Phact Publishing|location=East Grinstead|isbn=978-1897739310}}</ref>

==References==
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<ref name=alison>[[Alison Donnell]] (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&pg=PA124 ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'']. London; New York: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780203194997}}.</ref>

<ref name=demon>[http://www.election.demon.co.uk/1983EC.html British Parliamentary Election results 1983–97]. David Boothroyd. Accessed April 2016.{{unreliable source?|date=April 2016}}</ref>

<ref name=ho>[Home Office] (1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/20060216015144/http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ERO/records/ho415/1/reu/rrforum.htm Race Relations Forum]. London: Home Office. Archived 16 February 2006.</ref>

<ref name=farida>Farida Master (2015). ''Zerbanoo Gifford: An Uncensored Life''. Uttar Pradesh, India: Harpercollins Publishers India. {{ISBN|9789351776369}}</ref>

<ref name=john>John R. Hinnells (2005). [https://archive.org/stream/TheZoroastrianDiaspora2005/TheZoroastrianDiaspora#page/n377/mode/2up ''The Zoroastrian Diaspora: Religion and Migration'']. Oxford: Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0198267592}}.</ref>

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