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by Priyamvada Gopal

Mussolini, Benito 324, 344, 382, 383

  Naoroji, Dadabhai 172

  Napier, Sir Charles 57

  Nasser, Gamal Abdel 444

  Nat Turner rebellion 308

  National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP) 293, 309

  national belonging 326

  national degradation, British anxieties about 12–13

  national identity 115

  national self-conceptions, British 9

  National Union of Miners 421

  nationalism 326, 439

  African 427, 443

  anticolonial 210

  colonial 369

  Egypt 145–6, 149

  and foreign rule 192

  imperialist 369

  Indian 36, 169–70, 201, 202, 205–6, 227

  Indian Mutiny, 1857 189

  James and 327–8

  McKay and 293–4

  nationhood, language of 326

  native-in-revolt, the 45

  Nazism 383–6

  Négritude 438

  Negro 35, 289, 297–312, 317

  achievement 302–3

  African Empires and Civilisations’ 313–15

  and black self-representation 300–1

  central thematic 306

  colonial discourse analysis 312

  contents 303

  contributors 303, 305–6

  critique of paternalism 307–10

  Cunard interventions 301–2

  Cunard’s motivations 298–300, 303–4

  importance of 306–7

  McKay and 305, 316

  Michelet and 313–6

  neglect of 306

  publication 302

  purpose 305

  reception 301

  title change 298

  universalism 304–5

  and universalism 313

  The Negro in the Caribbean (Williams) 346–7

  Negro Welfare Association 340

  Negro Worker 310, 358

  Nehru, Jawaharlal 266, 372, 386, 404

  Nehru, Pandit Motilal 229, 248

  Nevinson, Henry Woodd 24, 31, 34, 175

  account of India 185–98

  and Ghose 189–94

  impact 198

  The New Spirit in India 186–97

  and Tilak 189–90

  New Imperialism 387

  New Leader 36, 270, 344, 361, 371, 372–3, 373–9, 382, 382–3, 385, 386, 389–90, 396, 404–5

  Empire Special 375–6

  New Negro discourse 328

  The New Spirit in India (Nevinson)

  New Statesman and Nation 415

  New Times and Ethiopia News 317

  New York Times 445

  New York Tribune 70, 71

  news, manipulation of 133

  Newsinger, John 6

  Nigeria 311, 364

  Nigerian General Strike 392

  Nimbkar, R. S. 256

  Nineteenth Century 136

  Nkrumah, Kwame (Francis) 319–20, 354, 448–9

  No-Conscription Fellowship 403

  Noel, Father Conrad, The Meaning of Imperialism 274–6

  Noel-Baker, Philip 264

  Non-Cooperation movement 233–5, 238

  non-European thought, influence 28

  Norton, John Bruce 52, 52–9

  contradictions 55–6

  emphasis on engagement 54

  The Rebellion in India: How to Prevent Another 54–8

  reversal of textual authority 53

  Topics for Indian Statesmen 58–9

  Nurse, Malcolm 363

  Nyabongo, Prince Akiki K. 302

  Nyerere, Julius 420

  Obama, Barack 445–7, 448

  O’Connor, Major-General 91, 92

  official mind, the, emphasis on 13

  oligarchy

  exposed 259

  white 276

  Oliver, Roland 426

  Olivierre, Cyril 365

  Opium Wars 376

  Oriental stagnation 57

  Orientalism 136–7, 147

  Orientalism (Said) 51

  Orientalist benevolence 136

  Orientalist frameworks 134

  Orwell, George 371, 372, 381–2, 454

  othering 194

  racial 87

  Otherness 18

  Ottoman Empire 233

  Oude, kingdom of 57

  Owen, Nicholas 6, 174, 175–7, 187, 198

  Oxford University 454

  pacifism 30

  Padmore, Dorothy 299–300

  Padmore, George 24, 35, 36, 213, 217, 291, 300, 310, 310–1, 318, 329, 330, 335, 337–8, 344, 348, 354, 355–70, 357, 372, 381

  on Africa 395–6

  analysis of fascism and colonialism 362–3

  background 360

  break with Comintern 362, 363, 365

  critique of Labour Party 373–4

  and Cunard 355–7, 366, 368

  deportation from Germany 358–9

  and fascism 383–4

  How Britain Rules Africa 366–70

  and ILP 361, 376

  and James 359

  journalism 361–2, 365–6, 367, 372–5, 376, 382, 385

  and Kenya 396

  LAI second conference contribution 358

  The Life and Struggles of the Negro Toilers 363–5

  London milieu 365–6

  Pan-African Conference, 1945 389–94

  in Paris 363

  political contacts 360–1

  political life 360

  and Second World War 383–7

  ‘The New Imperialism’ 387

  The White Man’s Duty 355–7

  writing style 359–60

  Pal, Bipin Chandra 179, 186

  Palestine 432, 444

  Pall Mall Gazette 163–4

  Pan-African Conference, 1945 389–94

  pan-African conferences, London 279, 281–4

  Pan-African Congress, Manchester, 1945 36

  Pan-African Federation 354, 389, 392, 393–4

  pan-Africanism 291, 351

  emergence of 35–6

  Pandey, Mangal 46

  pan-Islamism 147, 150, 211, 233

  Pankhurst, Sylvia 35, 288, 292–6, 316–7, 332

  Parekh Report, the 451–2

  Paris 209, 363

  parity, colonial denial of 161

  Parry, Benita 188, 203

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

  paternalism 18, 34, 44, 81, 115, 125, 135, 144, 176, 181–2, 187, 213, 220, 234, 264–5, 270, 272, 307–10, 322, 405, 435

  crisis of 426–33

  end of 389–94

  Pax Britannica 203

  Peace Pledge Union 406

  pedagogical engagements 30

  pedagogical projects 289–90

  Pedersen, Susan 266, 273

  People’s Charter, 1838 335

  People’s Paper 60, 61, 64, 68

  Perham, Margery 398, 425–33, 433, 434, 435

  The Colonial Reckoning 436–40

  Reith Lectures 436–40

  Ten Africans 429

  Peterloo Massacre 115, 122

  philanthropic humanitarianism 264

  Pieterse, Jan Nederveen 5, 27

  Pilcher, George 215

  Pim, Commander Bedford, ‘The Negro in Jamaica’ 109

  Pitts, Jennifer 123, 125

  plantocracy 122

  political communities 22

  political economy 108–9

  Pollitt, Harry 267

  Porter, Bernard 30, 73

  Positivism 72–80, 133, 315

  Post, Ken 338, 341, 352

  postcolonial studies 5, 9, 14–8, 19–22

  Postgate, Raymond 348

  Potter, T. B. 115

  Pound, Ezra 298

  power, relations of, asymmetrical 130

  power, transfer of 442–4

  Pratt, Tim 59–60, 62–3, 68–9

  Prince, Mary 16

  Pritt, D. N. 401, 402

  The Psych
ology of Mau Mau (Carothers) 397, 435

  Public Safety Act 246

  Punch 183

  Quit India movement 36

  race 107, 114, 118–23, 141, 143, 159, 172, 269, 271, 275, 279–80, 283–5, 288–95, 301–2, 307, 310, 317, 319–20, 322, 323, 328, 343, 356–8, 360, 364–5, 367–8, 371, 380, 383, 403, 423, 425, 451

  race, and class 293–4, 301, 328

  Race Relations Act 423

  racial chauvinism 369

  racial discrimination 277, 405, 412, 414

  racial hierarchy 27, 43, 84, 118, 120–1, 273, 322

  racial othering 87

  racial unity 107

  racialization 97

  racism 88, 285–90, 439

  and imperialism 310

  persistence of 408

  working classes 371–2

  Rai, Lala Lajpat 175, 182, 209

  Rastafarianism 339, 341

  reason, capacity for 25–6

  rebel agency 51–2

  rebel consciousness 8

  The Rebellion in India: How to Prevent Another (Norton) 54–8

  Red International of Labour Unions 364

  Negro Bureau 358

  Reform Bill, Second 84

  Reinders, Robert C. 286, 291

  Reith Lectures 436–40

  religion 349–50

  representative government 58

  Retamar, Roberto Fernández 5

  retributive agency 62–3

  reverse ethnography 312

  reverse tutelage 8–9, 24, 52–9, 130

  Reynolds, G. W. M. 114–17

  Reynolds, Reginald 362, 372, 375–6

  Reynolds Newspaper 114–17, 118–19

  Rhodes, Cecil 384, 454

  Rhodesia 386, 406

  Ridley, Frank 386, 387

  rights 85, 86

  indigenous conceptions of 160

  standing up for 121

  struggle for 123

  Ripon, Viceroy 167, 178

  rise-and-fall model 4–5

  Rivera, Diego 266

  Robinson, Cedric 291, 327, 331

  Rodney, Walter 349, 350

  Rolland, Romain 255–7, 256, 267

  Roundell, Charles 108

  Rowlatt Acts 233

  Roy, M. N. 234, 235, 239, 258, 259

  Royal Commission on Labour in India 221

  Ruark, Robert 396

  Ruskin, John 110, 111, 112

  Russian Revolution 210–1, 218, 234, 247, 257

  Rutherford, V. H. 205–6

  Sabunji, Louis 149

  Sahib, Nana 47

  Said, Edward 9, 18, 26–27, 29–30, 31, 51, 135, 137, 149, 197, 201, 452

  Saklatvala, Sally 215

  Saklatvala, Sarah 235

  Saklatvala, Shapurji 35, 213–14, 235, 254, 292

  anticolonialism 235

  anti-imperialism 216, 223–32, 240–4

  approach to colonial questions 222–3

  background 215–9

  critique of reformist approaches 225–9

  death 244

  emphasis on voice 220

  and Gandhi 237–40

  hostility towards 232

  and House of Commons 223–32, 240–3

  Hyde Park rallies 229, 230

  in India 232, 232–40

  influence 220

  interwar years 219–23

  LAI membership 267, 267, 268

  later career 243–4

  maiden speech 224

  and Meerut Conspiracy Case 249

  open letter to Gandhi 237–8

  political career 216–19

  political voice 217–18

  politicization 232–3

  position on India 219–23, 236

  signature project 224

  Simon Commission debate 215–16

  transnational significance 216

  universalism 226–7

  warnings 246

  and working classes 231–2, 242

  San Domingo 349

  Sanu, Yaqub (James Sanua) 149

  Sarkar, Sumit 178, 234

  Satichaura Ghat 47

  Saturday Review 94

  Saville, John 60, 263

  Schreiner, Olive 454

  Schuyler, George S. 311

  Scott, James C. 106

  Scottsboro case 277, 298, 306

  Second World War 7, 375, 383–7, 394

  self-assertion 23, 87–8, 101–2, 145–6, 161, 310–1, 433

  self-determination 6, 7, 171, 326, 448

  espousal of 210

  spectre of 205–6

  self-emancipation 33, 35, 150, 281

  centrality of 333

  insistence on 213

  self-improvement 98

  self-liberation 150, 185

  self-representation, insistence on 213

  Semmel, Bernard 95, 112, 125

  Senghor, Lamine 266, 269, 370, 438–9

  Seretse Khama controversy 402, 405

  sexual violence 48

  Shaw, George Bernard 293

  Sheller, Mimi 86

  Sherwood, Marika 222

  Shilliam, Robbie 451

  Sierra Leone 378

  Simon, Sir John 214–15, 227, 251–2

  Simon Commission 214–16, 227, 228–9, 240–2

  Singapore 444

  Singh, Bhagat 246

  skin colour 122

  slave revolts 308

  slavery and the slave trade 161, 332, 348, 349

  abolition 1–2, 3, 29, 100, 123, 275

  counter-historians 4

  return rumours 107

  Slavery Abolition Act, 1833 1

  A Small Place (Kincaid) 452–3

  Smith, Adam 77–8

  Smith, C. A. 363

  Smith, Goldwin 94, 122, 125, 454

  Smuts, Jan 387

  Snowden, Ethel 287

  Snowden, Philip 218

  socialism 440–1

  socialist antagonism 170–1

  Socialist International 424

  solidarity 23, 75, 333, 342–3, 356

  South Africa 386, 399, 405, 411, 412, 442–3, 455

  Industrial and Commercial Workers Union 350

  Soviet Union 307

  threat of 246, 247

  Spanish Civil War 317, 354, 371, 372, 382

  Spectator magazine 95, 97, 302

  speech acts 86

  Spencer, Herbert 94, 125–6

  Spoiling the Egyptians (Keay) 160–1

  Spratt, Philip 246

  Stock, Dinah 382

  Sudan 179

  Suez Canal 36, 131

  Suez crisis, 1956 444

  Sukarno 266

  Sun Yat-sen, Madame 267

  Sunday Gleaner 99

  Surat Congress, India 196

  Surrealist Group, the, ‘Murderous Humanitarianism’ 312

  Swadeshi movement 174, 177–80, 182, 193, 196, 197, 202–3, 204, 206

  international dimensions 209–10

  sympathy 23, 67–8, 74, 75, 77, 77–9

  Tagore, Rabindranath 180, 193, 233

  Tata, Jamsetji 215

  Tate & Lyle Corporation 338

  Tawney, R. H. 251

  Tel el-Kabir, battle of 131, 154

  Telegraph 454

  Ten Africans (Perham) 429

  Tewfik, Khedive 128, 131, 142, 142–3, 149

  Thengdi, D. R. 248

  theosophy 28

  A Thing to Love (Huxley) 431

  Thompson, Andrew 13

  Thompson, Edward 41–2, 75, 82, 276

  Thuku, Harry 350, 364

  Tilak, Bal Gangadhar 181, 184–5, 186, 189–90

  ‘The Shivaji Festival’ 189

  The Times 48, 59, 61–2, 64, 92, 108, 109, 114, 147, 149, 162, 164–5, 181, 416, 427, 428

  Topics for Indian Statesmen (Norton) 58–9

  torture 53–4, 415

  Torture Commission, 1855 53–4

  Townshend, John 68

  Trade Union Congress 249

  trade union movement 120, 260


  see also Meerut Conspiracy Case

  Trades Union Congress 342, 352

  transnational affiliations 326

  transnational connections 210

  travel 34–5

  travel writing 134

  travellers

  performative role reversal 130

  role of 130

  treaty violations 57

  Trevelyan, G. M. 3

  Trinidad 339, 341, 385

  Trouillot, Michel-Rolph 10–1, 17, 53, 309

  trusteeship 75, 76, 212, 213, 227, 387, 428–9, 432, 439

  rejection of 307, 333, 354

  Truth about Kenya (Fletcher) 398, 415–6, 418

  Tunis 128

  tutelage 173, 212, 264–5, 332

  rejection of 213, 307–8, 333

  Tyndall, John 110–1, 126

  tyranny, domestic resistance to 21

  Uganda 406, 407

  Underhill, Edward 87, 93, 97, 100, 102

  Union of Democratic Control 285

  United Nations 387

  United Nations Charter 387

  United Negro Improvement Association 360

  United States of America

  black agency 308–9

  black enfranchisement 125

  New Negro discourse 328

  pogroms 289

  slavery 1

  Universal Negro Improvement Association 293–4

  universalism 23–7, 44, 45, 226–7, 304–5, 313

  The Unrest in India (Hyndman) 172–3

  Urabi, Colonel Ahmad 127–9, 130–1, 131–2, 140

  background 142

  confrontation with Tefik 142–3

  death 162

  defence of 132

  defenders 141–2

  exile 132, 162

  and freedom 143–4

  goals 145

  Hussein Mosque speech 143–4

  letter to The Times 162

  meeting with Blunt 127–9, 140–2, 152–3

  nationalism 141–2

  Programme memorandum 147–8

  sense of class injury 143

  trial 132, 149, 153, 155–6

  Urabi Rebellion, Egypt 34, 127–33

  aftermath 131–2, 155–6, 155–65

  Blunt’s role 133

  campaign against 131

  Harrison and 156–60, 161–2

  intellectual background 147–52

  ‘Joint Note’ 127–9, 152

  justification of intervention 155

  Usmani, Shaukat 251–2

  Utchay, T. K. 312, 317

  Victoria, Queen 43–4, 72

  Virdee, Satnam 285, 290, 371

  voice 22–3, 28, 31, 33, 37, 52, 64–5, 86–87, 96, 100–5, 114, 116, 120, 122, 133, 137, 139–40, 154, 162–5, 180–1, 190, 213–4, 217–220, 223–4, 228–30, 238, 243, 254–5, 287, 289, 292, 296, 301, 307, 33102, 345, 355, 357, 407, 423, 427, 429

  Wadsworth, Marc 216, 233, 239

  wage labour 7, 16, 108

  Wallace, Donald Mackenzie 34

  Wallace Johnson, I.T.A. 330, 372, 392

  Walsh, Walter 251

  Ward, Arnold 362

  Ward, Stuart 12

  Watch Tower 351

  Waterhouse, Keith 417

  Wedderburn, William 170, 177

  Wells, H. G. 251

  West African Students Union 365, 392, 393

  West African Youth League 378, 379

 

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