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Index
Page numbers in bold refer to illustrations
Abdu, Muhammad 148, 149, 163–4
abolitionists 1–2, 16, 25, 101, 281, 308, 368
Abrahams, Peter 329, 362
Abyssinia, Italian invasion of 36, 316–8, 319–20, 321, 321, 323–7, 330, 335–6, 368, 370, 372, 438
Address to the Nations of the World 280, 280–1
Adhikari, Gautam 253–4
Adi, Hakim 392
Adorno, T. 453
Affective Communities (Gandhi) 19–21
Afghan War, Second 50, 82
Al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din 140, 148–52, 163, 166, 185
Afghanistan 50, 82, 159–60
Africa
Brockway on 406–14
Padmore on 395–6
Perham on 427–433, 439–440
scramble for 129
African Association 279
African Journeys (Brockway) 406, 406–14, 420
African nationalism 427, 443
African Socialism (Brockway) 440–1
age of revolution 10
agency 16, 17–8, 21, 55
anticolonial 424
black 10, 88, 308–9
colonial subjects 5–6
rebel 51–2
retributive 62–3
Alexandria
Afghani speech 151
bombardment of 131, 145, 153, 154, 155, 158
Algeria 136, 436, 445
Ambedkar, Dr B. R. 238
ambivalence 15, 19, 20, 21
Americas, the, native resistance 16
Amrita Bazar Patrika 237–8
Amritsar massacre 82, 198, 233, 375
Anderson, David, Histories of the Hanged 416–7
Anderson, Wellwood Maxwell 106
Andrews, C. F. 217, 276
‘Anglobalization’ 4
Anglo-Boer War, Second 36–7
Annual Register 154
Anti-Aggression League 156
anti-capitalism 165, 171, 320, 323
anticolonial agency 424
anticolonial encounter, space of 23–4
anticolonial groupings, alliances 211
anticolonial inheritance 8
anticolonial nationalism 210
anticolonialism 7, 19–36, 52, 70, 130, 133, 135, 153, 156, 165, 174, 177–8, 206, 211–12, 216, 234, 243, 249, 258, 264, 266, 269–70, 276, 278, 280, 284, 289, 290–2, 298, 305–7, 316, 322–3, 326–8, 333–4, 354, 358–60, 386, 389–90, 398, 404–5, 423, 426, 439, 449, 451–3
Anticolonialism in British Politics (Howe) 6
anti-fascism 316–8
Anti-Imperialist Exhibition, Glasgow 342
Anti-Imperialist Review 220
Anti-Slavery Society 279
apartheid 399, 405, 408, 411, 455
Apex Oilfields strike, 1935 339
Appiah, Joe 391
Arab Spring, the 446–7
arbitrary power, exercise of 122
Arnot, Robin Page 259–60
Ashwood Garvey, Amy 329
Asiatic revival 193
assimilation
creative 29
dialectics of 5
assimilative thinking 63
Associated Negro Press 317
Atlantic Charter 356, 393
atmashakti 179
Attlee, Clement 393, 393–4
Aurobindo, Ghose 179, 180, 181, 186, 189–94, 199
Awakening of India (MacDonald) 30, 199–204
Azikiwe, Nnamdi 311, 366
Back-to-Africa movement 310
Bahadur Shah Zafar, 47–8, 49
Bakan, Abigail 97
Bakhtin, Mikhail 23, 29
Baku 258
balance sheet assessments 15
Baldwin, Davarian L. 328
Ballard, Arthur 28, 376–8
Bande Mataram 191
Barbados Observer 375
Barbusse, Henri 287
Basah, Gopal Chandra 253
Basutoland 364
BBC, Reith Lectures 436–40
Beard, Mary 454
Beckett, Samuel 303, 312
The Bee-Hive 115, 119, 120–2
Beesly, Edward 118–20, 121
Belgian Congo 350
Bender, Jill 43, 46
benevolence 75, 81, 125, 184–5, 196, 354
aspirations to 174
benevolent humanitarianism 34
Bengal, partition of 167, 173, 176, 177, 178–9, 205
Benjamin, Walter 300
Besant, Annie 167, 170, 217, 219, 295
Bevan, Aneurin 411, 418–9
Bhabha, Homi K. 14–5, 19, 20, 176
Bhambra, Gurminder 18
Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi 45–6
Bhownagree, Mancherjee 217
Bibighar incident 47
black agency 10, 88, 308–9
black counterculture, London 319–22
black enfranchisement 125
‘Black Englishmen’ 331
black inferiority, assumption of 120
black intelligentsia 283
The Black Jacobins (James) 326, 330, 354, 377
black labour, white plantocracy’s view of 105
black political consciousness 334
blackness 318, 322, 348
fear of 285–90
Blatchford, Robert 371
Blunt, Lady Anne 134, 135, 143
Blunt, Wilfrid 20–1, 24, 28, 31, 34, 135, 210, 263
and Afghani 150
background 134–5
correspondence with Urabi 130–1
critical humanism 135
criticism of British rule 137
as Egyptian nationalist 152–6, 162–5
engagement with Islam 134, 135–40, 149
on European influence 139–40
and freedom 141
The Future of Islam 138, 144, 163
on Harrison 156
Ideas about India 167–9
Indian travels 163, 166–9
meeting with Urabi 127–9, 140–2, 152–3
Orientalist benevolence 136
personal transformation 138–40, 140–7
political transformation 130
Programme memorandum 147–8
support of Urabi 132
‘The Egyptian Revolution’ 144
‘The Shame of the Nineteenth Century’ 164–5
Urabi Rebellion role 127–9, 133
and Urabi’s trial 149, 156
The Wind and the Whirlwind 163
Bogle, Paul 90, 99, 101, 102–3, 126
Bogues, Anthony 328
Bolt, Christine 44
Bombay 215
Bombay General Strike 246
Bombay Times 53
Bradley, Ben 246
Brandes, Georg 287
Brennan, Timothy 7, 34
Brexit referendum, 2016 12
Bridgeman, Reginald 261–4, 265, 267, 267, 268, 278, 310, 358
Bright, Jacob 115
Bright, John 94, 154, 436
British Centre Against Imperialism 382, 388
British Centre for Colonial Freedom 404
British Committee of the Indian National Congress 160
British Empire
apologetics for 15
domestic criticism 7
expansion 4
goals 6, 11
humanitarianism 84
liberal 6
pre-eminence 4
rise-and-fall model 4–5
scale 9
as single conceptual unit 84
British Guiana crisis 402
British India Committee 175
British Socialist Party 218
Britishness 32, 82, 452
crisis of 254
Broadley, A. M. 129, 132, 156
Brockway, Fenner 21, 24, 28, 262, 267, 270–2, 286, 361–2, 368, 371, 372, 378–9, 387, 403–6, 455
African Journeys 406, 406–14, 420
African Socialism 440–1
‘Has Hitler Anything to Teach Our Ruling Class?’ 376
and Mau Mau insurgency 398, 407–8, 408–14, 417, 418
and MCF 419–20, 420–1, 423–4
‘Why Mau Mau? An Analysis and a Remedy’ 413–14
Bryan, Herbert 217
Buck-Morss, Susan 5, 17
Burton, Antoinette 4, 12
Burton, Richard 137, 153
Butler, Uriah 378–9
Byron, Lord 140
Cain, Peter 199
Calder-Marshall, Arthur 353
Caliban model 5, 17, 331, 336, 433, 437
Cama, Bhikaji 209
Campbell, J. R. 269, 276–7
Cannadine, David 3
capitalism 213–4, 224, 328, 448
conceptions of freedom 15
imperialism 255–7
racial oppression 289
sovereignty of 252