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by Kwasi Kwarteng

Iddesleigh, Stafford Northcote, Earl of

  Igbo people

  Ijebu-Remo, Akarigbo of

  Ilbert Bill

  Imperial Airways

  Imperial Forest Service

  ‘imperial preference’

  Incas

  India

  Amritsar massacre

  and Burma

  and democracy

  education

  famines

  and franchise system

  and Ilbert Bill

  nuclear testing

  partition and accession of Kashmir

  princely states

  protocol and precedence

  and religion

  wars with Pakistan

  see also Kashmir

  India Office

  Indian army

  Indian Civil Service

  Indian Congress Party

  Indian Mutiny

  individualism

  International Chamber of Commerce

  International Criminal Court

  Iqbal, Sir Muhammad

  Iran (Persia)

  Iran, Shah of

  Iran–Iraq War

  Iraq

  Arab uprising

  Ba’athist coups

  British mandate

  casualty figures

  climate

  economic and social development

  invasion of Kuwait

  Law 80 dispute

  literacy rates

  military spending

  ‘oil for food’ programme

  oil nationalization

  and oil pipeline

  oil production

  oil refineries

  oil reserves

  oil revenues

  population

  revolution

  Revolutionary Command Council

  sectarian divisions

  ‘Thirty Days War’

  treaties with Britain

  US-led invasion

  war with Iran

  Iraq National Oil Company (INOC)

  Iraq Times

  Iraqi Development Board

  Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC)

  and Law 80 dispute

  nationalization of

  Ireland

  Irish Home Rule

  Irrawaddy, River

  Irwin, Lord

  Islam

  and Kashmir

  and Nigeria

  and Pakistan

  and racial tolerance

  and Sudan

  Sunni and Shi’ah sects

  Israel

  Italy

  oil interests

  Jammu

  Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Army

  janjawid

  Japan

  occupation of Burma

  occupation of Hong Kong

  Jardine, William

  Jardine, Matheson and Co.

  Jardine’s merchants

  Jenkins, Roy

  Jersey

  Jerusalem

  Jinnah, Mohammed Ali

  Jordan

  Jowett, Benjamin

  Juba

  Julius Caesar

  K2

  Kaduna

  Kai-shek, Chiang

  Kak, Pandit

  Kandy

  Kangra

  Kano

  Karbala

  Karen people

  Kashmir

  accession to India

  British residents

  cow-killing prohibition

  and democracy

  famine

  and franchise system

  and hierarchy of states

  and hydroelectricity

  insurgency

  Lawrence system

  literacy rates

  Maharaja’s abdication

  Martyrs Day

  Pandit exodus

  Pashtun invasion

  population

  prostitutes

  racial characteristics

  and religion

  Russian influence

  sale of

  sectarian divisions

  taxation

  Kashmiri army

  Kashmiris, British

  Kassala

  Katsina College

  Kellogg, Frank

  Kelly, Colonel P. W.

  Kemp, Sir Joseph

  Kennedy, Sir Arthur

  Kenya

  Keswick, Henry

  Keun, Odette

  Khan, Sir Zafarullah

  Khartoum

  cadets mutiny

  clubs

  Grand Hotel

  rebuilding of

  and Sudan campaign

  Khatib, Nadeem

  Khomeini, Ayatollah

  Kimberely, Lord

  King’s College, Cambridge

  King’s College London

  Kingsley, Charles

  Kingsley, Mary

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kim

  Plain Tales from the Hills

  ‘The White Man’s Burden’

  Kirkuk

  Kitchener, Arthur

  Kitchener, Frances

  Kitchener, Colonel Henry

  Kitchener, Herbert Horatio

  and discipline

  and First World War

  and individualism

  knowledge of Arabic

  sexuality

  and siege of Khartoum

  Koran

  Korean War

  Kosygin, Alexei

  Kuwait

  Labour Party

  and Biafra

  and Burma

  and Hong Kong

  and Iraq

  Lagos

  Lahore

  Lake Geneva

  languages

  see also Arabic; Cantonese

  Lansing, Robert

  Laos

  Lashkar-e-Taiba

  Latimer, Sir Courtney

  Lawrence, George

  Lawrence, Sir Henry

  Lawrence, John

  Lawrence, T. E.

  Lawrence, Walter

  Lawrence, W. F.

  Le Mans

  League of Nations

  Lebanon

  Ledwidge, Bernard

  Lehár, Franz

  Lenin, V. I.

  Lesseps, Ferdinand, Vicomte de

  Liberal Party

  and Burma

  Lin Zexu

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln College, Oxford

  Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton

  Lisbon

  Listowel

  Litchfield, Major

  Liverpool

  Lloyd, Lord

  Lloyd, Selwyn

  Lloyd George, David

  local government

  London

  Burma conference

  and Burma trade

  and fall of Hashemites

  gentlemen’s clubs

  and Hari Singh blackmail

  London School of Economics

  Londonderry

  Los Angeles

  Louis XIV, King

  Lu Xan

  Lugard, Lord

  Lyttelton, Oliver

  Lytton, Lord

  Macartney, Lord

  Macau

  Macaulay, Lord

  MacDonald, Malcolm

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  McIver, Lewis

  McKellar, Kenneth

  MacLehose, Murray

  Macleod, Iain

  MacMichael, Harold

  Macmillan, Harold

  Macpherson, D. R. de C.

  Madeira

  Madras

  Maffey, Sir John

  Magdalen College, Oxford

  Magna Carta

  Mahdi, the

  Major, John

  Malawi

  Manchester

  Mandalay

  Modi Monastery fire

  royal palace

  Mao Zedong

  Marfels, Dr

  Marks, Dr John

  Marlborough, Duke of

  Marx, Karl

  Maskelyne, Professor N
evil

  Matheson, James

  Maugham, Somerset

  The Painted Veil

  Mayo, Lord

  Mayo College

  Mead, Walter Russell

  Mecca

  Medina

  Menon, V. P.

  Merchiston Castle

  Mesopotamia, see Iraq

  Messervy, General Sir Frank

  Mexican War

  Mexico

  Middle East Economic Survey

  Mikardo, Ian

  Milan

  Milner, Alfred

  Mindon, King of Burma

  Minhla

  miscegenation

  Miss World pageant

  Mohammed, Prophet

  Mohammed, Murtala

  Mohammed Ali Pasha

  Mohammed Sherif, Sheikh

  Mohra

  Mombasa

  Mon people

  Monck-Mason, George

  Montagu, Edwin

  Monte Carlo

  Montesquieu

  Montreux

  Morel, E. D.

  Morgan, F. P. Stuart

  Morocco

  Morris, James (Jan)

  Morton, Major Desmond

  Morton, Jack

  Moscow Gazette

  Mossadeq, Mohammed

  Mosul

  Mountbatten, Edwina

  Mountbatten, Lord

  Moylan, E. K.

  Moyne, Lord

  Mozambique

  Mubarak, Hosni

  Mudie, Francis

  Mufti of Jerusalem

  Mughal emperors

  Mumbai

  Murray, A. E. F.

  Murray, Gilbert

  Muslim Brotherhood

  Muslim League

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mustagh Pass

  Mysore

  Nairobi

  Najaf

  Napier, Sir Charles

  Naples

  Nash, Philip

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel

  National African Trading Company

  National Farmers’ Union

  National Islamic Front

  Nazi Germany

  Nazis

  Ne Win

  Nehru, Jawaharlal

  Nelson, Admiral Lord

  neo-conservatism

  Nepal

  Neve, Dr Ernest F.

  New Nigerian

  New Penny Magazine

  New Statesman

  New York

  New York Times

  New Zealand

  Newbold, Douglas

  newspaper reporting

  Nicolson, Harold

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Niger, River

  Nigeria

  abolition of federation

  amalgamation

  Biafran secession

  British arms supplies

  Christian missionaries

  elite education

  immigrants

  independence

  indirect rule

  local treaties

  military coups

  oil resources

  political parties and elections

  population

  post-war constitutions

  railways

  tribalism and corruption

  tripartite division

  uneven development

  Nile, River

  Nimeiri, Gaafar

  Noel-Baker, Philip

  North German Gazette

  North Rumaila oilfield

  North West Frontier Province

  Northern People’s Congress

  Nupé, King of

  Nuremberg trials

  Nzeogwu, Patrick

  Obuchi, Keizo

  O’Donnell, Thomas

  oil price

  Ojukwu, Chukwuemeka

  Ojukwu, Sir Louis

  Okotie-Eboh, Festus

  Okpara, Dr Michael

  Omdurman

  Omdurman, Battle of

  Omdurman Radio

  OPEC

  opium

  Organization of African Unity

  Orkney Islands

  Ormsby-Gore, William

  O’Rourke, P. J.

  Orwell, George

  Osborne House

  Ottoman Empire

  Owen, David

  Oxfam

  P&O

  Pagan Min, King of Burma

  Pakistan

  Martyrs Day

  nuclear testing

  partition and loss of Kashmir

  wars with India

  Palestine

  Palestine Exploration Fund

  Palmerston, Lord

  Pandrethan estate

  Paris

  Paris International Exhibition

  Paris peace conference

  Parker, J. R. W.

  Parnell, Charles Stewart

  Parsons, Anthony

  Parsons, Richard

  Pashtun tribesmen

  Patel, Sardar

  paternalism

  Patten, Chris

  Paul VI, Pope

  Pax Britannica

  Pearce, Major General C. F. B.

  Pearl Harbor

  Pearn, B. R.

  Peel, Viscount

  Peking, see Beijing

  ‘People’s Budget’

  People’s Daily

  Perham, Margery

  Perowne, Stewart

  Persia, see Iran

  Persian Gulf

  Peshawar

  Pethick, Emmeline

  Pethick-Lawrence, Lord

  Philby, Harry St John

  photography

  Plato

  Plymouth

  Polk, Frank

  pongyis

  Ponsonby, General Sir Henry

  Poonch, Raja of

  Pope-Hennessy, John

  Port Sudan

  Pottinger, Sir Henry

  Poynton, Hilary

  Pravda

  Prendergast, General Harry

  public schools

  and Hong Kong

  and India

  and Nigeria

  Punjab

  Qadeer, Abdul

  Qayum, Abdul

  Quantrill, W. E.

  Queen’s College

  racial attitudes

  Radio Biafra

  Raleigh, Sir Walter

  Ralli, Padelli

  Ramadan

  Rance, Sir Hubert

  Rangoon

  and Japanese occupation

  Rangoon University

  Rashid Ali

  Reading, Lord

  Red Cross

  Red Line Agreement

  Red Sea

  Rees-Williams, David

  Reform Bills

  Renton, Sir David

  Rewa, Maharaja of

  Rhodes, Cecil

  Rhodes, Colonel Frank

  Rhodesia

  rice

  Richard, Henry

  Richards, Sir Arthur

  Ripon, Lord

  Ritchie, Sir Adam

  Roberts, Andrew

  Roberts, Denys

  Roberts, Goronwy

  Robertson, Sir James

  Robinson, Hercules

  Robinson, Mrs

  Rogers, M. H. G.

  Roman Catholicism

  Romania

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Rosen, Carl-Gustav von

  Rosenthal, Victor

  Rossall School

  Rothschilds

  Rowlands, Ted

  Royal Air Force

  Royal Albert Hall

  Royal Artillery

  Royal Dutch Shell

  Royal Engineers

  Royal Geographical Society

  Royal Hong Kong Golf Club

  Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

  Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

  Royal Navy

  Royal Niger Company

  Royal Society of St George

  rubies

  Ruder Finn agency


  Rugby School

  Rushdie, Salman

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russia see also Soviet Union

  Rwanda

  Said, Edward

  St John, Oliver

  St Mary’s Redcliffe School

  Saint-Prot, Charles

  Salisbury, Lord

  San Remo Agreement

  Sanskrit

  Sant Dev, Swami

  Sargent, Inge

  Sassoon, Frederick

  Sassoon, Siegfried

  Saudi Arabia

  Saya San

  Schubert, Franz

  ‘Scramble for Africa’

  Second World War

  Sedgwick, P. C. M.

  Seychelles

  Shakespeare, William

  Henry V

  Shan people

  Shanghai

  Sharif, Omar

  Sharpe, Mrs

  Shatt al Arab

  Shaw, Charlotte

  Shaw, Flora

  Shaw, Robert

  Shell/BP

  Shirazi, Sheikh Muhammad

  Shuckburgh, Sir John

  Shudo, Mr

  Shwé Yon

  Siam, invasion of

  Sikh Empire

  silk

  Simla

  Simon, Sir John

  Sinderson, Sir Harry

  Singapore

  Singh, Amar

  Singh, Duleep

  Singh, Gulab

  Singh, Sir Hari

  Singh, Karan

  Singh, Sir Pratap

  Singh, Ranbir

  Singh, Ranjit

  Slade, Sir Edmund

  Sladen, Colonel Edward

  slave trade, Sudanese

  slavery

  African

  Slim, Lieutenant General Sir William

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Ian

  Smith, John Abel

  Smithers, Peter

  Smuts, Jan

  Sokoto, Sardauna of (Ahmadu Bello)

  Sokoto, Sultan of

  Somme offensive

  South Africa

  South China Morning Post

  Soviet Union

  and Nigeria

  oil interests

  rivalry with China

  and Sudan

  see also Russia

  Soyinka, Wole

  Spain

  sports

  boxing

  cricket

  fencing

  fishing

  fives

  golf

  horse racing

  hunting

  pigsticking

  polo

  rugby

  shooting

  soccer

  tennis

  Sprye, Captain Richard

  Srinagar

  Stalin, Josef

  Standard Oil Company of New Jersey

  Stanley, Lord

  Stanley, Oliver

  Steel brothers

  Steevens, G. W.

  Steinbach, Colonel Henry

  Storrs, Sir Ronald

  Stubbs, Reginald

  Suakin

  Sudan

  Ali Dinar rebellion

  Bashir coup

  ‘Blacks ruled by Blues’

  Bog Barons

  Christian missions

  civil wars

  condominium arrangement

  and Darfur crisis

  and First World War

  geography

  independence

  and Islam

  ‘Nilotic Conservatism’

  Nimeiri coup

  oil discovery

  population

  religious fanaticism

  slave trade

  ‘Southern Policy’

  Torit mutiny

  undeveloped south

 

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