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by Priyamvada Gopal


  vs labour 283–4, 284–5

  Capitalism and Slavery (Williams) 347

  Caribbean, the, labour insurgencies 35–6

  Carlyle, Thomas 110, 111, 119–20

  Carothers, J. C., The Psychology of Mau Mau 397, 435

  Carpenter, Edward 273

  Castle, Barbara 398, 411, 414–5, 417, 418, 423

  censorship 385

  Central African Federation 402

  Césaire, Aimé 25, 305, 314, 315, 385

  Ceylon 132, 162

  Chakrabarty, Dipesh 15

  Chakravarty, Gautam 50

  Chakravarty, Gopendra 253

  Chaplin, Charlie 298

  Charter for Coloured Peoples 393

  Chartism 60

  Chartist movement 6

  Chattopadhyaya, Virendranath 235, 266

  Chaudhuri, Nirad C. 438

  Churchill, Winston 356, 393, 443

  civilizational discourse 159, 335

  Claeys, Gregory 6, 133, 165, 170, 171, 172

  Clarke, Reverend Henry 100

  class 74, 77–8, 80, 88, 101, 107, 118–19, 121–2, 141–2, 147, 155, 214, 216, 221, 226, 238, 242, 254, 259–60, 278, 279, 284, 289–90, 309, 359, 367, 387

  class government 68

  and race 367

  class society 74

  class struggle 253, 351

  see also Working-Classes

  Cold War 422

  Cole, Juan 144

  collective punishments 435, 444

  collectivities 29

  Colley, Linda 95

  colonial benevolence 125

  colonial discourse analysis 132, 312

  colonial failure 315

  colonial fascism 343–6, 359, 362–3, 367, 394

  Colonial Office 93, 98–9, 105, 224, 366, 398, 400, 425, 449

  colonial project 3

  resistance to 8

  Colonial Question, the 211

  The Colonial Reckoning (Perham) 436–40

  colonial rule, justification for 76–7

  Colonial Standard and Jamaica Despatch 101

  colonial subjects, agency 5–6

  colonialism 7, 10, 25–6, 29–30, 75, 139, 159–60, 205, 218, 223, 258, 265, 291–2, 303, 305, 315, 317, 320, 325–6, 359, 382, 395–8, 410, 422, 424, 426, 437–9, 453

  and Cold War 422

  CPGB’s record on 222

  legitimization 265–6

  Marx and 70

  refusal to register resistance 223–4

  and rights 160

  Comité de Défense de la Race Nègre 269

  common human feeling 78–9

  Commonwealth 11, 387, 394

  Commonwealth Immigrants Act (1962) 422–3

  communication, technological advances 211, 251

  communism 257–8

  Cunard and 307

  disillusionment with 320

  threat of 247–8

  Communist International (Comintern) 211, 237, 240, 258, 264, 268, 277, 360, 374, 424

  disillusionment with 320

  First Congress of the Peoples of the East 258

  Padmore breaks with 362, 363, 365

  Second Congress 221, 258

  Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 217, 221–2, 251, 261, 263–4, 374

  Colonial Committee 221

  Indian Bureau 221

  record on colonialism 222

  Communist Party of India 235

  Congress of Peoples Against Imperialism 404

  Congreve, Richard 8, 33, 45, 59, 72–80, 80, 161, 210, 231

  appeal to women 77

  common human feeling 78–9

  Gladstone’s 75–6

  ‘India’ 75–7

  influence 74

  and justification for colonial rule 76–7

  position on India 30, 52

  ‘Protest Published as a Placard’ 72

  and solidarity 75

  and the working classes 77–80

  Conrad, Joseph 454

  contact zone 130

  contagion 52, 66, 71

  Controversy 348, 363

  Cooper, Frederick 396–7

  Corfield, F. D. 416

  Cotton, Henry 170, 176

  counterinsurgency 444–5

  Indian Rebellion, 1857 48–50, 59, 68–9, 71

  prose of 33, 64

  Creech Jones, Arthur 352, 380–1, 411, 412, 417–8

  Cripps, Stafford 329, 352–3

  crises of conscience 398

  The Crisis (journal) 308

  critical humanism 23, 135

  Crowder, Henry 298

  Cugoano, Ottobah 16

  Cullen, Countee 297

  cultural relativism 30, 73

  culturalism 44

  Cunard, Nancy 20–1, 24, 28, 35, 289, 292, 296–313, 300, 332

  background 297

  ‘Black Man and White Ladyship’ 303–4

  and black self-representation 300–1

  and communism 307

  and McKay 297, 302, 316

  motivations 298–300, 303–4

  neglect 301

  and Negro 297–312

  Negro contribution 309–10

  and Padmore 355–7, 366, 368

  ‘Revolution – the Negro Speaks’ 317

  and Scottsboro case 298

  The White Man’s Duty 355–7, 394

  Curzon, George 178–9

  Cyprus 36, 402, 444

  Daily Herald 250, 286, 287, 288, 293

  Daily Mail 416, 454

  Daily Mirror 414, 415, 417

  Daily Telegraph 111

  Daily Worker 35, 220, 261, 397

  Dalhousie, Lord 57

  Darwin, Charles 94

  Darwin, John 3, 32

  de Silva, J. V. P. 383

  Declaration to the Colonial Workers, Farmers and Intellectuals’ 391

  decolonization 3, 439, 440–1

  historiography 11–2

  LAI vision of 269

  managed 13

  myth of 448–55

  dehumanization 25–6

  Delhi 46

  Demerara 42, 50

  democracy 33, 65–6, 348

  ‘habit of’ 283

  dialogic engagement 28–9

  dialogism 23–4

  moral 53

  Dicey, Edward 147

  Dickens, Charles 88, 110, 112

  Dien Bien Phu, battle of 445

  Digby, William 172

  Dilke, Sir Charles 155

  Diop, David 438

  Disraeli, Benjamin 50

  dissent

  importance of 31–2

  invisibility 27–8

  Dominion status 219, 237

  Donnellan, Kathleen 385

  Douglass, Frederick 1–2, 3, 29, 447

  Du Bois, W. E. B. 280, 281, 308–9, 359, 391

  Dutt, Clemens 264–5

  Dutt, Rajani Palme 222, 275

  Dyer, General 82, 233

  East India Company 2, 46, 49, 124

  failures 43

  Jones polemics on 60–2

  use of torture 53

  Edwards, Brent Hayes 306, 320, 348

  Egypt 136

  anticolonialism 34

  Blunt’s support 152–6

  Council of Deputies 147

  Council of Representatives 143

  dissident journalism 148

  institution-building 149

  invasion and occupation 129, 131

  justification of intervention 155

  land grabs 143

  nationalism 145–6, 149

  self-assertion 145–6

  Suez crisis, 1956 444

  see also Urabi Rebellion

  Einstein, Albert 267, 298

  Eliot, George 74

  emancipation 7, 26

  achievements of 27

  language of 257

  Empire Exhibition, Glasgow 335

  engagement 54

  Englishness 65, 82, 84

  Enlightenment, the 14, 25–6

  equality 25, 52, 12
4, 431–2, 433

  black 94–5

  conceptions of 29

  ‘longing for’ 195

  Equiano, Olaudah 16

  Ethiopia 310–1

  Italian invasion of 36, 316–8, 319–20, 321, 321, 323–7, 330, 335–6, 368, 370, 372, 438

  Ethiopianism 339, 340, 341

  Eurocentrism 14, 315

  executions

  Indian Mutiny, 1857 46, 49

  Mau Mau insurgency 410, 418

  Morant Bay rebellion 33, 83–4, 85, 91, 93, 95, 99, 117

  Eyre, John Edward 16, 89, 98

  acquittal 97

  on black atrocities 92

  burned in effigy 88

  declares martial law 91, 92, 94, 111, 112

  despatch 92–4

  final days 126

  prosecution 110–26

  severity of suppression 94

  supporters 88

  sympathy for 121

  welcome banquet 117

  Eyre Defence and Aid Fund 110–1

  Fabian Colonial Bureau 353, 425, 433–4

  Facing Mount Kenya (Kenyatta) 330, 382, 410

  FACT 348

  Fanon, Frantz 139, 236, 315

  fascism 322, 324, 333, 378–9

  colonial 343–6, 359, 362–3, 367, 394

  fight against 382–4

  and imperialism 343–6, 372–3, 383–4

  Fawcett Report 246

  Ferguson, Niall 4

  First World War 8, 206, 210, 219, 232–3, 437

  Fletcher, Eileen, Truth about Kenya 398, 415–6, 418

  Ford, Hugh 303, 305–6

  Ford, James W. 309, 358

  Forster, E. M. 193, 197–8

  A Passage to India 22, 188, 198, 203, 356, 453–4, 454

  Fortnightly Review 136, 138, 167

  France 128, 358, 444–5

  franchise 33, 99

  free trade 30

  freedom 6, 447

  Blunt and 141

  clash of freedoms 95

  conceptions of 7, 11, 14, 15, 18, 29, 86, 105, 105–10

  definition of 431–2

  democratic 437

  Egyptian sense of 143–4

  European sense of 143–4

  hierarchies of 8

  IASB and 347–54

  and labour power 107–8

  and land ownership 105–7

  meaning of 102

  problem of 110–26

  racialized inflection 4

  source of 2–3

  Tilak’s definition 185

  universal 121

  uses of 105–10

  Froude, J. A. 109–10

  The Future of Islam (Blunt) 138, 144, 163

  Gandhi, Leela, Affective Communities 19–21

  Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 36, 219, 221, 256, 404

  and Meerut Conspiracy Case 248

  non-violent direct action 233–5, 238

  paternalism 234

  Saklatvala and 237–40

  Salt Satyagraha 227

  Second Round Table Conference, 1931 243, 251

  Garrison, William Lloyd 308

  Garvey, Amy Ashwood 35, 321–2, 329, 365, 391

  Garvey, Marcus 293–4, 294–5, 310, 351, 360, 437

  Garveyism 341, 351

  Geiss, Immanuel 362, 389

  Genet, Jean 22

  Germany 343–4, 345, 345–6, 358–9, 387

  Ghana 448–9, 450

  Gibraltar 72

  Gilroy, Paul 27, 451

  Girni Kamgar Union 247

  Gladstone, William 75, 131, 141, 145, 146, 153–4, 155, 157

  Glasgow

  Anti-Empire Exhibition 376–7

  Empire Exhibition 335

  ILP support 377

  global anticolonial networks 35

  Gokhale, Gopal Krishna 177, 181, 186

  Goldsworthy, David 402

  Gordon, George W. 111, 115, 126

  agitation 99

  elected to the Assembly 99

  establishmentarian respectability 97

  execution 33, 83–4, 91, 91, 93, 95, 99, 117, 123

  and land ownership 106

  last letter to wife 96

  and Morant Bay rebellion 96–101

  newspapers 98–9

  power-in-death 100

  problem of 97–8

  racialized 97

  skin tone 122

  ‘St Ann’s Address’ 116

  ‘State of the Island’ notice 104

  status 97

  Underhill meetings 100–1

  Gordon, Taylor 307–8

  Goswami, Dharni 252–3

  Governor Eyre controversy 16, 33–4, 84–5, 86, 89, 92–4

  gradualism 75, 198, 202, 219, 354, 418, 431, 435

  rejection of 213

  Great Britain

  anticolonialism 21–2

  anxieties about national degradation 12–3

  Brexit referendum, 2016 12

  double standards 58

  oppositional discourse 23–5

  relationship with history 448–55

  Gregory, Lady 142

  Gregory, Sir William 129, 153

  Guha, Ranajit 33, 59, 64

  Gumede, Josiah Tshangana 269

  Habeas Corpus acts, Ireland 89

  Haile Selassie, Emperor 324, 370

  Haitian Revolution 5, 10, 109, 111, 171, 309, 310–11, 349, 350, 377

  Hale, Leslie 408, 412–13, 418

  Halifax, Lord 378

  Hall, Catherine 89, 94–5

  Hardie, Keir 24, 34, 370–1, 404

  Harlem Renaissance, the 297, 301

  Harrison, Frederic 28, 31, 74, 93, 94, 111, 129, 144, 156, 213

  Blunt on 156

  civilizational discourse 159

  ‘Egypt’ 156–9

  and Indian Mutiny, 1857 80–1

  Martial Law: Six Letters to ‘The Daily News’ 122–3

  and the Urabi Rebellion 156–60, 161–2

  Hart, Richard 340

  Heyrick, Elizabeth, Immediate not Gradual Abolition 25

  Hill, Ken 392

  Hinduism 180, 188–9, 194, 202

  Hindustan Republican Association 246

  Hire, Augustus 90–1

  historical silences 9–13

  Histories of the Hanged (Anderson) 416–7

  historiography

  of decolonization 11–3, 448–55

  orthodoxy 12

  history

  British relationship with 448–55

  whitewashing 454

  A History of Negro Revolt (James) 330, 339, 348–52

  Hobson, J. A. 31, 36–7, 170–1

  Høgsbjerg, Christian 371, 381, 390

  Holt, Thomas C. 16, 87

  Home Rule Leagues 182, 219, 235

  Hooker, James 358, 360

  The Horror on the Rhine (Morel) 286

  House of Commons 213, 217, 240–3, 380–2, 388–9, 408, 423

  Meerut campaign 262

  Saklatvala and 223–32

  Simon Commission debate 214–6

  How Britain Rules Africa (Padmore) 366–70

  Howe, Stephen 171, 331

  Anticolonialism in British Politics 6

  Howsin, Hilda 205–6

  Hughes, Langston 297, 307

  human commonality 24–5

  human liberty, Douglass on 2

  humanism 17, 26, 27, 33, 135

  critical 23

  Humanism and Democratic Criticism (Said) 26–7

  humanitarianism 30, 84, 98, 385

  Hume, Allan Octavian 169

  Hume, David 66

  Hurston, Zora Neale 304

  Hutchinson, Lester 245, 248, 249, 250, 257, 258–9, 375

  Huxley, Elspeth 396, 429, 430–1

  A Thing to Love 431

  Huxley, Thomas 94, 126

  hybridity 20

  Hyde Park riots, 1866 89, 120

  Hyndman, Henry Mayers 170, 171–3

  The Unrest in India 172–3

  Ideas about India (Blunt) 167–9
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  Immediate Not Gradual Abolition (Heyrick) 25

  imperial histories 4–5

  imperial historiography 5, 9

  imperial initiative, 3

  imperial policy, criticism of 60

  imperial project 138

  rejection of 124

  imperial scepticism 165, 170

  imperialism 3, 51

  British 137

  capitalist 255–7

  conceptions of 21–2

  democratic 333

  dialectics of 5

  exploitation of labour 285

  exploitation of working classes 275–6

  and fascism 343–6, 372–3, 383–4

  Hobson’s critique of 170–1

  LAI British Section analyses of 274–6

  MacDonald and 31

  Meerut Conspiracy Case critiques 253–7

  Noel’s critique of 274–6

  and racism 310

  resistance to 11

  Whig historiography 19

  imperialist-nationalism 369

  improvement mission 76

  indentured labour 108

  Independent Labour Party 182, 266, 278, 286, 347, 361–2, 363, 365–6, 368

  foundation 371

  and the invasion of Ethiopia 372

  and Labour Representation Committee 371

  membership 371, 372

  National Council 372

  Padmore and 361, 372, 373–5

  and the question of empire 370–89

  Saklatvala and 216

  and Second World War 383–7

  support in Glasgow 377

  India 58, 375, 378, 437

  Amritsar massacre 198, 233, 375

  annexations 57–8

  anticolonial resistance 177–8

  antipathy to British rule 54–5

  aspirations to benevolence 174

  Blunt in 163

  Blunt’s account of 163, 166–9

  Bombay 215

  Bombay General Strike 246

  Britain’s role in 203–4

  British rule 41–2, 43–5, 54–8, 60–1, 69, 72–4, 80–1, 82, 167, 167–9, 171, 182–3, 199–200, 201, 203–4

  causes of unrest 195

  Congreve’s position on, 52, 72–3, 74–7

  cultural resources 184

  Dominion status 219, 237

  extent of agitation 182

  gradualist programme 219

  Hinduism 180, 188–9, 194, 202

  impoverishment 171–3

  Indigo Rebellion 169

  Jones on 52, 72

  justification for colonial rule 76–7

  Keir Hardie and 170, 175, 179, 180–4

  labour insurgencies 35

  labour rebellions 221

  Labour sympathizers 175–7

  MacDonald and 30, 198–204, 205

  Mappila (‘Moplah’) Rebellion 234

  Muslim population 180

  nationalism 36, 169–70, 189, 201, 202, 205–6, 227

  Nevinson’s account 185–98

  Nevinson’s recommendations 196–7

  New Party 184–5

  newspapers 201

  Non-Cooperation movement 233–5, 238

  Norton on 52, 52–9

  oligarchy exposed 259

  Parsee capitalist class 215–6

  partition of Bengal 167, 173, 176, 177, 178–9, 205

  paternalism 44

  Pax Britannica in 203

 

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