Imperial Reckoning

by Caroline Elkins

  Governor’s Detention Orders (GDOs)

  “grey” detainees

  Griffith-Jones, Eric

  Griffiths, Gerald

  Griffiths, James

  guards, in camps

  beatings of women in

  detainee engagement with

  living conditions and morale

  missionaries and

  oathing and

  self-policing

  sex with

  singing and

  Gulag Archipelago (Solzhenitsyn)

  Hadingham, K. P.

  Hale, Leslie

  Hall, Francis

  hard core

  collective uprisings and

  conditions worse for

  Cowan Plan and Hola Massacre

  detention of

  exile policy and

  Gavaghan appointed to break

  letters written by

  pressure to confess

  Mwea and

  separated for release and exile

  targeted murder of

  women

  Hardy, D. E.

  Harris, N.F.

  Harrison, Robert (assistant prisons superintendent)

  Hartley, D.

  Havelock, Wilfred

  Hawley, Emile

  Hayward, Brian

  Health and Housing Department

  health and sanitation

  barbed-wire villages and

  letters from detainees on

  secret survival classes and

  screening camps and

  works camps and

  hearts-and-minds (psychological) campaign.

  See also rehabilitation

  Baring and Lyttelton adopt

  assumption of moral superiority and

  barbed-wire villages and

  confession and

  designed after Malaya’s

  eliminationist attitude overshadows

  lack of dedication to

  Pipeline not oriented around

  psychopathology of Mau Mau and

  Wamumu school and

  Helo, Major

  Henderson, Ian

  Herling, Gustaw

  Hill, G.

  Hinde, W. R. N. “Loony,”

  Hola Camp

  Massacre

  Hola exile plan

  holding camps. See reception centers

  Homan, F. D.

  Hombe village

  home-craft training

  Home Guard

  Athi River Camp and

  barbed-wire villages and

  charges of brutality vs.

  forced labor and

  missionaries and

  Mununga massacre and

  news in camps and

  open camps and

  screenings and

  tried for torture and execution

  training of

  Home Guard posts

  Hong Kong

  Hook, Ivan

  Hughes, Oswald “Ozzie,”

  human rights issue

  Huxley, Elspeth

  Ignatio, Senior Chief

  Imperial British East Africa Company

  independence

  India

  Civil Service

  Parliament

  informants

  inspection committees

  intake processes

  International Committee for the Red Cross

  International Labour Organization

  Conventions

  Ireri, Njama

  Itina (Ass, nickname)

  Jeanes School

  Johnson, James

  Johnston, Carruthers “Monkey,”

  Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

  Jones, Elwyn

  Jowitt, Lord

  Junod, Henri

  juvenile delinquency

  juvenile detention. See also children

  Juveniles Ordinance

  Kabaru screenings

  Kabete school for boys

  Kabui (White-Haired One, nickname)

  Kaggia, Bildad

  Kago, General

  Kagombe, Nderi

  Kagunda, Kirigumi

  Kaharika, Grace

  Kahuro Camp

  Kajiado Camp

  Kamaguta Camp

  Kamangu

  Kamau, Eric

  Kamba

  Kamiti Camp

  repatriation from

  Kandara

  Baring visits

  massacre

  kangaroo courts

  Kapenguria Six

  Kapila, Achhroo

  Karanja, Samson

  Kariuki, Irungu

  Kariuki, Josiah Mwangi (J. M.)

  Kariuki, Obadiah

  Karoki (He Who Comes at Dawn, nickname)

  Karuahu (Mongoose, nickname)

  Karumba, Kungu

  Karumi, Karuma

  Keates, Richard

  Kenda Kenda (Nine Nine, nickname)

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU)

  Kenya African National Union (KANU)

  Kenya African Union (KAU)

  Kenya Committee

  Kenya Information Office

  Kenya Legislative Council (LegCo)

  African members

  Kenya National Archives

  Kenya Parliament at independence

  Kenya Police Department

  Young resigns as commissioner of

  Kenya Police Reserve (KPR)

  Kenya Regiment

  “Kenya’s Concentration Camps—An Eyewitness Account” (Fletcher)

  Kenya Supreme Court

  Kenya—time for Action (pamphlet)

  Kenyatta, Johnstone “Jomo,”

  arrest and trial of

  returns from Britain

  at Lokitaung, during Emergency

  leaves detention

  as president of Kenya

  Kenyatta, Peter Muigai

  Kenya Weekly News (newspaper)

  Keyser, Major

  Kiama, Magayu

  Kiamariga “protected village,”

  Kiambaa Location, of Kiambu

  Kiambu District

  barbed-wire villages and

  campaign launched in

  Kikuyu reserves in

  loss of land in

  settlement scheme for

  works camps in

  Kiambu Home Guard

  Kianjogu Home Guard post

  Kibe, Harun

  Kibicho, Karue

  Kibira, Ndiritu

  Kiboroboro (Killer, nickname)

  Kichina, Kamau

  Kiereini, Jeremiah

  Kiganjo village

  Kihuga (Busy and Watchful One, nickname)

  Kikuyu. See also Kikuyu reserves; loyalists;

  Mau Mau; oathing; Pipeline; and specific issues and types of detention

  Anvil and round-up of

  colonization and

  damage to, during Emergency

  decline of, after WW II

  female circumcision and

  government of, before colonialism

  independent schools and churches

  Kenyatta arrest and

  Kenyatta release and

  landed vs. landless

  manhood of, assaulted by British

  political sophistication of

  population of, in 1962

  preachers, confessions and

  religion and culture of. See also Ngai (God)

  survivor interviews and

  targeted by British

  threat to, by local whites

  Waruhiu assassination and

  Kikuyu Central Association (KCA)

  Kikuyu Christians

  Kikuyu-Luo alliance

  Kikuyu reserves (Kikyuyuland). See also barbed-wire villages; works camps

  agricultural production and

  Anvil sends many back to

  Baring and reform proposals for

  beauty of, devastation of Emergency vs.

  Bewes visits

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sp; British paternalism toward

  chiefs and private police in

  deportations to

  detention centers filled with people shipped from

  disease in, and repatriation

  forced labor and collective punishment and confiscation in

  forced villagization in

  Four-Point Plan and

  Home Guard post screenings in

  land reforms in, Swynnerton Plan and

  Lennox-Boyd and

  life of, under Emergency

  Mau Mau gain control over

  Mau Mau vs. loyalists in

  missionaries in

  oathing in, during Emergency

  overcrowding in

  rehabilitation and

  screenings and

  soil conservation and labor in

  squatters and

  standard of living adjusted for

  supply lines to guerrillas in

  unemployment in

  Kimanja, Paul

  Kimathi, Dedan

  King’s African Rifles

  Kinyanjui, Frederick

  Kiriaini police station

  Kiringiti Estate

  Kiruara massacre

  Kiruku, Rachel

  Kitale Club

  Knight, Alan

  Knight, O. H.

  Koinange, former Senior Chief

  Koinange, Frederick

  Koinange, James

  Koinange, Mbiyu

  Korean War

  Kubai, Fred

  Kuria, Mary wa

  Kwa Futi (Fort Hall main camp)

  kwashiorkor

  Kwa Wood (execution site)

  labor, forced or coerced. See also unemployment; wages

  camps as source of cheap

  coercion of, by white settlers

  communal

  communal, ex-detainees and

  control and disposition of

  detention camps and

  estates and

  exile camps and

  food and water and

  new camps built with

  open camps and

  post-Emergency laws and

  siting of camps and

  soil conservation programs and

  used to force confession

  villagization and

  white settlers get cheap African

  women’s camp and

  works camps and

  Labor Department

  labor recruitment

  Labour Party, British Opposition

  letters from detainees to

  National Executive Committee

  La Fontaine, S. H.

  Lakin, Denis

  Lall, Chaman

  Lambton, Lord

  Lamu Camp

  Lamu Island interrogation center

  Lancashire Fusiliers

  Land and Freedom Army

  land and freedom demand

  land consolidation

  land issue and confiscations. See also Swynnerton Plan

  independence and

  Langata Camp

  Langata Prison riots

  Lari Massacre

  Larwood, Harold

  Lathbury, Gerald

  Law, Ernest

  “Law and the People” (article)

  Leakey, Louis

  Legum, Colin

  Lennox-Boyd, Alan

  background of

  dilution technique and

  exile policy and

  Hola Massacre and

  human rights and

  knowledge of atrocities

  letters from detainees and

  Operation Progress and

  Pipeline and

  protests and cover-up and

  repatriation and

  replaces Lyttelton as head of Colonial Office

  silence of British public and

  typhoid in Manyani camp and

  Young resignation and

  Leopold II, king of Belgium

  letters from detainees

  on dilution techniques

  Lokitaung prisoners and

  on Mariira deaths, to Observer

  smuggled to officials in Kenya and Britain

  suppressed

  women detainees and

  Levi, Primo

  Lewis, John “Taxi,”

  Cowan Plan and

  Hola Massacre and

  letters from detainees and

  Life

  Liverpool Post

  livestock confiscation

  Lloyd, Lord

  Lodwar Camp

  Lokitaung political detainees

  letter sent to Observer

  Lord Delamere Bar

  loyalists. See also Home Guard

  camps and

  defined

  Emergency laws and

  forced labor and

  former detainees and

  independence and

  interviews with

  land and

  return of detainees and

  screening and

  villagization and

  work camps and

  Loyalty Certificate

  Loyd, Frank

  Luhya population

  Luies, Daniel Derek

  Luka, Chief

  Luo-Kikuyu coalition

  Luo

  Lyttelton, Oliver

  Bewes and

  Emergency and

  international conventions

  Lennox-Boyd replaces

  Mountbatten and

  repatriation and

  Maasai

  Macharia, Helen

  Macharia, Kabebe

  Macharia, Nelson

  Macharia, Pascasio

  Macharia, Phillip

  Macharia, Rawson

  Mackinnon Road Reception Center (later holding camp)

  Macleod, Iain

  report to Colonial Policy Committee

  Macleod, Rhoderick

  Macmillan, Harold

  McPherson, Duncan

  Maendeleo ya Wanawake (Progress Among Women Clubs)

  Magayu, Wachehu

  Mageta Island Camp

  Compound 2

  Compound 2 uprising

  letters from detainees on

  Manifesto or code of conduct

  Magayu, Wachehu

  Mahehu, Paul

  Mahinda, Winnie

  Mahuru (Eagle, nickname), See Warren-Gash Katherine

  Maina, Salome

  Malan, D. F.

  Malaya

  Malaya Ministry of Defense

  malnutrition. See also food deprivation; nutrition; starvation

  barbed-wire villages and

  transit camps and

  Manchester Guardian

  Manda Island Camp

  Mandela, Nelson

  Mang’ara, Naftaly

  Manningham-Buller, Reginald

  Manyani Reception Center (later holding camp)

  communications in

  Compound 1

  Compound 6

  detainee codes of conduct in

  dilution technique and

  informants in

  leaks about conditions in

  Lennox-Boyd tours

  letters from detainees from

  missionaries in

  riots in

  typhoid epidemic

  Manyani Times

  Mapiga (Beater, nickname)

  Mara River Camp

  Marigat Camp

  Mariira Camp

  Martin, Commandant

  Mason, Philip

  massacres

  early colonization

  Kahuro

  Kandara

  Kiruara

  Mununga

  Mathea, Chief

  Mathenge, Isaiah Mwai

  Mathieson, Will

  Matuini (Heaven, nickname)

  Mau Mau Author in Detention (Wanjau)

  Mau Mau Detainee (Kariuki)

  Mau Mau guerrilla war

  Mau Mau Investigation Center

  “Mau Mau University,�
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  Mau Mau uprising and adherents. See also barbed-wire villages; confessions; detainees; Emergency; guerrilla war; oath; Pipeline; screening; works camps

  amnesty of 1955 and

  anticolonial rebellion launched by

  assault on civilians and, by Baring

  attitudes toward, and eliminationism