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• Introduction
• The far right and the British Empire
• Ireland
• India
• Palestine
• Kenya
• Rhodesia
• Conclusion.

"This book examines, for the first time, the role of Britain's Empire in far-right thought between 1920 and 1980. Throughout these turbulent decades, upheaval in the Empire combined with declining British world power was frequently discussed and reflected upon in far-right publications, as were radical policies designed to revitalise British imperialism. Drawing on the case studies of Ireland, India, Palestine, Kenya and Rhodesia, this book argues that imperialism provided a frame through which ideas at the core of far-right thinking could be advocated: nationalism, racism, conspiracy theory, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. The far-right's opposition to imperial decline ultimately reflected more than just a desire to reverse the fortunes of the British Empire, it was also a crucial means of promoting central ideological values. Ultimately, by analysing far right imperial thought, we are able to understand how they interacted with mainstream ideas of British imperialism during the 20th century, whilst also promoting their own uniquely racist, violent and authoritarian vision of Empire. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of British fascism, empire, imperialism, racial and ethnic studies, and political history"-- Provided by publisher.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Economic Environment During Mughal Empire Tale of Four Cities During Mughal Empire Economic Environment During Rule of East India Company Tale of Four Cities and the East India Company Economic Environment During British Raj Tale of Four Cities and British Raj Epilogue Bibliography Index.
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Ascent and Decline of Native and Colonial Trading: Tale of Four Indian Cities presents a vivid picture of how the British political regime reorganized the structure of the Indian economy to suit its own objectives. While doing so, the regime also affected the geographical distribution of economic activities, which in turn altered the locations of poverty and prosperity. To reveal how the British colonial power brought about such changes in the Indian subcontinent, the book narrates the account of two pairs of native and colonial cities- Dacca and Calcutta from the eastern coast, and Surat and Bombay from the western coast. These were major centres of manufacturing, shared a common history and experienced the consequences of three different political dispensations-the Mughal Empire, the East India Company and the British Raj. It describes in detail how mutually beneficial relationships and interregional variations between these cities developed because of colonial restructuring. Due to its extensive coverage and analysis of the underlying phenomena, this book will prove indispensable for developing a deep understanding of Indian colonial and economic history.
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Botlhodi--The Abomination is a powerful story about British colonialism and its aftermath in Molepolole, Botswana. It is a compelling juxtaposition between Traditional Setswana ways and Christianity. The protagonist, Modiko, finds himself conflicted when both his strict father, a pastor of Motlhaoetla church, and his grandfather, an unapologetic traditionalist, expect him to choose between Setswana tradition and Christianity. Torn between the two worlds, Modiko at the end makes an informed personal decision. The road is not smooth though, as he experiences persecution, bullying, abuse, witchcraft and nightmares along the way. Other characters in the novel engage in some serious conversations that allude to some important historical developments. In this work, T.J. Pheto presents to his readers a hilarious story pregnant with themes of identity, social change, discrimination, racism, colonialism, love and, 'tradition' versus 'modernity'. This pioneering literary response to British colonialism in Botswana is an outstanding postcolonial fiction of resistance. Pheto's humor makes the book all the more hard for a reader to put down

• List of Maps Preface to the Second Edition
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 The Imperial Century
• Chapter 3 India
• Chapter 4 Africa
• Chapter 5 Imperial Influence
• Chapter 6 Empire and Globalization
• Chapter 7 Historiography Index About the Author.
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This book provides a concise overview of the British Empire from its origins in the early nineteenth century, to its climax at mid-century, to its denouement on the eve of World War I. Considering the impact of imperial rule on subject peoples, Parsons explores the themes of cross-cultural social and environmental interaction from a world history perspective.
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• The construction of historical memory: sites and processes
• The many pasts of the Indian subcontinent
• Social structure and historical narration in western India
• Western historiography and colonial history in British India.

"Sumit Guha considers South Asian traditions of social and historical memory in the context of world history, identifying the influence of varying forms of socio-political organization on precolonial regional and linguistic patterns of historical memory. These traditions shaped the historiographic legacy that was inherited by the British imperial era in India. Guha explores the ways in which socially objective historical memory has been made in South Asia through the past eight centuries. The latter part of that period was one in which Asia had to deal with the impact of the West, not only politically and economically, but also through the hegemony of Western modes of thought, especially history. Drawing on sources in a range of languages, Guha establishes the first intellectual history of the precolonial traditions of historiography in diverse Indian regions. He emphasizes the social context of historical thought, while noting that "the frame does not make the painting, even though a canvas will fall limply underfoot without a frame to hold it." The Social Frame of Historical Memory contributes to far-reaching historiographical debates, which intensified in the Anglo-American world during the 1990s as historians responded to the post-modern critique of knowledge. Arguments around the objectivity of historians' practices continue to intensify following Oxford Dictionaries' selection of "post-truth" as the Word of the Year for 2016, and as accusations of "fake news" complicate the public's understanding of objectivity and documentation. This volume is thus a timely contribution to the study of history within the global setting"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Competing histories
• Why empire?
• British rule and foundation accounts : India and Ireland
• China and the United States
• Australia, Canada and New Zealand
• Responding to the world that empire made
• The slave trade and racism
• The view from Britain
• Conclusions.

Britain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.
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• Introduction : drawing the line, writing beyond it : toward a transnational history of partitions / Arie M. Dubnov and Laura Robson
• From minority to nation / Faisal Devji
• The architect of two partitions or a federalist daydreamer? : the curious case of Reginald Coupland / Arie M. Dubnov
• "The meat and the bones" : reassessing the origins of the partition of Mandate Palestine / Motti Golani
• "Indian ulsterisation", Ireland, India, and partition : the infection of example? / Kate O'Malley
• "Close parallels"? : interrelated discussions of partition in South Asia and the Palestine Mandate (1936-1948) / Lucy Chester
• Analogical thinking and partition in British Mandate Palestine / Penny Sinanoglou
• Rejecting partition : the imported lessons of Palestine's binational Zionists / Adi Gordon
• Arab liberal intellectuals and the partition of Palestine / Joel Beinin
• Poets of partition : the recovery of lost causes / Priya Satia
• Epilogue : partitions, hostages, transfer : retributive violence and national security / A. Dirk Moses.

Partition-the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states-is often presented as a successful political "solution" to ethnic conflict. In the twentieth century, at least three new political entities-the Irish Free State, the Dominions (later Republics) of India and Pakistan, and the State of Israel-emerged as results of partition. This volume offers the first collective history of the concept of partition, tracing its emergence in the aftermath of the First World War and locating its genealogy in the politics of twentieth-century empire and decolonization. Making use of the transnational framework of the British Empire, which presided over the three major partitions of the twentieth century, contributors draw out concrete connections among the cases of Ireland, Pakistan, and Israel-the mutual influences, shared personnel, economic justifications, and material interests that propelled the idea of partition forward and resulted in the violent creation of new post-colonial political spaces. In so doing, the volume seeks to move beyond the nationalist frameworks that served in the first instance to promote partition as a natural phenomenon.
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• Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Tables Glossary Units of Measurement
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Creation of a System 2.1 A Chronology of the British Opium Monopoly in India 2.2 A Further Note on Bengal and Malwa: Two Opium Economies Intermingled 2.3 Keystone of Empire 2.4 Opium and China 2.5 Auctions 2.6 The Sudder Factories
• 3 The Functioning of a System 3.1 The Opium Department: A Centralised Bureaucratic Structure 3.2 The Settlement 3.3 Laws and Fines 3.4 Local Collaboration
• 4 A Local-Level Analysis of an Opium District: Saran 4.1 Topography and General Aspects Related to Agriculture 4.2 The People of Saran 4.3 Distribution of Land Proprietorship and Tenancy 4.4 Crops
• 5 The Costs and Benefits of Poppy Cultivation 5.1 Poppy within Bihar's Agriculture 5.2 Agricultural Operations of Poppy Cultivation 5.3 Who Cultivated Poppies? 5.4 Costs and Benefits: An Assessment
• 6 The Mechanics of a System: Incentives, Coercion and Dependence 6.1 The System of Advance Payments 6.2 Sarkar-By Order of the Government 6.3 Zamindar-Triadic Relations
• 7 Conclusion
• Appendix Bibliography Index.
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The Peasant Production of Opium in Nineteenth-Century India is a pioneering work about the more than one million peasants who produced opium for the colonial state in nineteenth-century India. Based on a profound empirical analysis, Rolf Bauer not only shows that the peasants cultivated poppy against a substantial loss but he also reveals how they were coerced into the production of this drug. By dissecting the economic and social power relations on a local level, this study explains how a triangle of debt, the colonial state's power and social dependencies in the village formed the coercive mechanisms that transformed the peasants into opium producers. The result is a book that adds to our understanding of peasant economies in a colonial context.
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• Crossing the dark water
• Religion
• Converting religion
• Regulating religion
• Outlawing religion
• Hinduism
• Standardizing Sanatana dharma
• Making world religions.

How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, ""Hinduism"" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent and African descent came together-under the watchful eyes of the British rulers-to walk on hot coals for fierce goddesses, summon spirits of the dead, or honor Muslim martyrs, practices that challenged colonial norms for religion and race. Drawing deeply on colonial archives, Alexander Rocklin examines the role of the category of religion in the regulation of the lives of Indian laborers struggling for autonomy. Gradually, Indians learned to narrate the origins, similarities, and differences among their fellows' cosmological views, and to define Hindus, Muslims, and Christians as distinct groups. Their goal in doing this work of subaltern comparative religion, as Rocklin puts it, was to avoid criminalization and to have their rituals authorized as legitimate religion-they wanted nothing less than to gain access to the British promise of religious freedom. With the indenture system's end, the culmination of this politics of recognition was the gradual transformation of Hindus' rituals and the reorganization of their lives-they fabricated a ""world religion"" called Hinduism.
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• Intro
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Violence and Emancipation
• Introduction
• How Emancipation and Violence Continue to Work
• Colonial Ideology and its Elements
• Emancipation
• Violence
• The Malay Moment
• Conclusion
• Chapter 2 Ideology
• Introduction
• Colonial Ideology and its Uses of Comparison
• Communism and the Modern
• Burma and Malaya
• The CCP and the MCP
• Malayan Communism and its Claim to Objectivity
• The MCP Platform

• Use of the Subjective in Colonial Ideology
• Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Compensation
• Introduction
• Compensating Acceptable Nationalism
• Malaya and Hong Kong
• Purchasing the Peace
• The Compensation Decisions
• Singapore and the Federation of Malaya
• Oil and Decolonisation: North Borneo and Sarawak
• Hong Kong
• Reasons for the Compensation Decisions
• Immunising Malaya and Singapore from Communism
• International Arbitrariness
• Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Laissez-faire
• Introduction
• Recolonising by Letting Go
• A Little History
• An Ideology of Doing Nothing

• Strickland's Thesis
• Detecting Ideology in Moratorium Exemptions
• Lo's Advice to Strickland
• Non-compensation of the Nationalist Factory Sector
• The Chiens
• The Political Studies Clique, China Paint, and Chiap Hua
• The Po Shing: Nationalists or British?
• Matheson's Reasons
• Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Silencing and Renouncing the Heroic
• Introduction
• Mock Radicals
• The Central Problems
• Exposure via Benjamin
• Observations of Centrist Intellectualism
• The Everyman Sympathy Trope
• Leftist Settler Syndrome
• Keeping Colonial People Small
• Communists as Losers

• Colonial Ideology: Present and Past
• Lam Swee and Deflection
• Propaganda
• Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Concluding Remarks
• Chapter Conclusions
• Ideology
• The Future?
• Notes
• References

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya, begging the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?
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• 1 Thrones and dominion: European colonisers and indigenous monarchs
• 2 The last king in Ceylon: the British and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 1815
• 3 Kings of Orient were: royal exile in British Asia
• 4 'Dragons of Annam': the French and three emperors in Vietnam
• 5 Out of Africa: the British, French and African monarchs
• 6 The French and the queen of Madagascar: Ranavalona III, 1897
• 7 From conquest to decolonisation: exile from French North Africa Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Though the overthrow and exile of Napoleon in 1815 is a familiar episode in modern history, it is not well known that just a few months later, British colonisers toppled and banished the last king in Ceylon. Beginning with that case, this volume examines the deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs by the British and French - with examples in India, Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tunisia and Morocco - from the early nineteenth century down to the eve of decolonisation. It argues that removal of native sovereigns, and sometimes abolition of dynasties, provided a powerful strategy used by colonisers, though European overlords were seldom capable of quelling resistance in the conquered countries, or of effacing the memory of local monarchies and the legacies they left behind. -- .
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• Introduction
• Constitutional arrangements
• The office of governor
• Legislative authority and controls
• Executive authority and controls
• Judicial authority
• The law officers
• Sources of law
• Human rights in the territories
• Defence, public order and security, and emergency powers
• Nationality and belonger status
• Public finance
• External relations
• The territories in international law
• Air and maritime transport
• Termination of British sovereignty.

This is a manual of law and practice relating to the 14 remaining British overseas territories: Anguilla; Bermuda; British Antarctic Territory; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cayman Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Montserrat; Pitcairn Islands; St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha; South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands; Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus; Turks and Caicos Islands; and Virgin Islands. Most, if not all, of these territories are likely to remain British for the foreseeable future, and many have agreed modern constitutional arrangements with the British Government. This book provides a comprehensive description of the main elements of their governance in law and practice, and of the constitutional and international status of the territories. This long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive update on the law governing overseas territories. It reflects the post-Brexit landscape, and covers the Extradition Act 2003 (Overseas Territories) Order 2016 and the Emergency Powers (Overseas Territories) Order 2017. In addition, it explores case law developments from Chagos Islanders v The United Kingdom to the Mauritius case concerning British Overseas Territory waters.
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• Boyle and the wider colonial world
• Boyle's material world
• Boyle's social world
• Boyle's military world.

• Introduction
• Literature review
• The context which conditioned the discourse
• Genesis of British colonial education policies
• Philosophical sources of inspiration for African education
• Political context on the Gold Coast
• Educational discourse and Guggisberg's administration
• Achimota School as an experiment
• Educational adaptation and public response in Ghana after independence
• Conclusion.

"From 1910 to the 1930s, educating Africans was a major preoccupation in the metropole and in the colonies of imperial Britain. This richly researched book untangles the discourse on education for African leaders, which involved diverse actors such as colonial officials, missionaries, European and American educationists or ideologues in Africa and diaspora. The analysis is presented around two foci of decision-making: one is the Memorandum on Education Policy in British Tropical Africa, issued by the British Colonial Office in 1923; another is the Achimota School established on the Gold Coast Colony (present-day Ghana) as a model school in 1927. Ideas brought from different sources were mingled and converged on the areas where the motivations of actors have coincided. The local and the global was linked through the chains of discourse, interacting with global economic, political and social concerns. The book also vividly describes how the ideals of colonial education were realized in Achimota School."--Page [4] of cover.