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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