I would like to thank many friends who provided encouragement while I wrote the book. It would be invidious to mention everybody by name, but a special debt of gratitude is owed to Sarah Fitch, Henry Hitchings, Amber Rudd, Charles Steel, Rachel Wrangham and Alice Yates.
The production of a book like this necessarily involves a great deal of commitment from a number of professionals. Anna Simpson, amongst others at Bloomsbury, worked tirelessly on the editorial side. Peter James lived up to his reputation as an exemplary copy editor. My editor, Michael Fishwick, always provided encouragement and support for a project which he believed in from the very beginning.
Lastly I would like to extend special thanks to my parents, to whom the book is dedicated, and to my agent, Georgina Capel, whose boundless energy and dauntless optimism sustained the project right through to its completion.
Index
Abacha, Sani
Abba
Abd al-Ilah, Crown Prince
Abdul Hamid, Sultan
Abdullah, Khalifa
Abdullah, Sheikh
Abeokuta, Alake of
Abyssinia
Achebe, Chinua
Addis Ababa
Adichie, Chimamanda
Adisadel College
Admiralty
Adowa
Afghanistan
Afghans
Agadir crisis
Aguiyi-Ironsi, General Johnson
Ahmed, Jamal Mohammed
Aitchison, Sir Charles
Aitken, Jonathan
Ajaokuta
Ajmer
Akassa
Akintola, Samuel
al-Askari, Jafar Pasha
al-Azhair, Ismail
al-Bakr, Hassan
al-Bashir, Omar
al-Jadr, Sayid Adib
al-Mahdi, Sadiq
al-Pachachi, Adnan
al-Qasim, Abdul Karim
al-Rifa’i, Rashid
Al-Sabah family
Al-Thawra
al-Tikriti, Hardan
al-Turabi, Hassan
al-Wahhab, Mohammed ibn Abd
Alaungpaya, King of Burma
Alexander the Great
Alexander, General Sir Harold
Alexandria
Ali (cousin of Prophet)
Ali, Liaquat
Ali Dinar, Sultan
Aligarh University
Allahabad
Allenby, General Lord
All-India Kashmir Committee
Aly Khan, Prince
American Civil War
American Petroleum Institute
Amery, Leopold
Amritsar
anarchic individualism
Andaman Islands
Andrews, Chapman
Angeli, Heinrich von
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Angola
Anti-Fascist People’s Freedom League (AFPFL)
Apre, James Broom Walker
Arab revolt
Arabic
Arab–Israeli War
Arakan
Aramco
Argentina
Argyll, Duke of
Arif, Abdul Rahman
Arif, Abdul Salam
Armenia
Armenian Orthodox Church
Arthur, Captain C. W.
As-Said, Nuri
Asquith, Henry Herbert
athleticism
see also sports
Attlee, Clement
Aung San
Aung San Suu Kyi
Austin, Warren
Australia
Ava
Ayam
Ayutthaya
Azerbaijan
Azikiwe, Nnamdi
Ba’athists
Bach, J. S.
Baghdad
British Embassy
and Iraqi revolution
OPEC meeting
population
Presidential Palace
Baghdad Boar Hunt
Baghdad Pact
Baghdad Railway Company
Baker, Hermione
Baker, Sybil
Baker, Valentine
Baldwin, Stanley
Balewa, Sir Abubakar Tafawa
Balliol College, Oxford
Balzac, Honoré de
Banda, Hastings
Banerjee, Sir Albion
Bank of China
Baramullah
Barbados
Baring, Sir Evelyn, see Cromer, Lord
Barings
Baroda
Barretto, Jose
Basra
BBC
Beauclerk, Topham
Beggara tribesmen
Beijing (Peking)
Tiananmen Square massacre
Bell, Gertrude
Bello, Ahmadu, see Sokoto, Sardauna of
Bengal
Berlin–Baghdad railway
Berlin Conference
Bernacchi, Brook
Bernard, Charles
Berthelot, Marcellin
Bevin, Ernest
Bex
Bhamo
Biafra
Biddulph, Major General Sir Robert
bin Laden, Osama
Birkbeck College
Birkenhead, Earl of
Birmingham
Black, Robert
Blair, Tony
Blake, Sir Henry
Blenheim Palace
‘Blockhouse’ system
Bo Swe
boarding schools, see public schools
Boardman, Tom
Boer War
Bombay
Bombay Burma Trading Corporation
Bombay Gazette
Borden, Sir Robert
Bosman, Walter
Boswell, James
Botha, Louis
Bourdillon, Sir Bernard
Bowman, Humphrey
Boy Scouts
Brahmins (Pandits)
bridge
British Council
British East Africa
British Empire Exhibition
British Petroleum
Brittany
Broome Park estate
Brown, George
Browne, Major Edmond
Browne, General Horace
Bruce, Sir Arthur
Buchan, John
Bucher, General Sir Roy
Buckingham Palace
Buddha
Buddhism
Buddhist priests
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
Burma
annexation of
Aung San and AFPFL
bank project
and British politics
civil war
climate and conditions
court etiquette
dacoit insurgency
elections
folk tales
hill tribes
independence day
Indian immigrants
Japanese occupation
military dictatorship
‘pacification’ of
prisoner abuse
railway projects
religion and supernatural beliefs
ruby exports
Saya San rebellion
social structure
succession and massacres
and trade
troop surge
and women
Burma Field Force
Burma National Army
Burma Ruby Mines Company
Burma–Siam railway
Burmese army
Burton, Geoffrey
Cadman, Sir John
Cairo
‘forty thieves’ conference
Calcutta
Callaghan, James
Cambodia
Camel Corps
Canada
Cannadine, David
Cannes
cannibalism
Canton
Canton Register
Cantonese
Carden, D. C.
Carleton, Billie
Carlyle,
Thomas
Cassidy, P. S.
cavalry charges
Central Asian Society
Central School
Ceylon
Chad
Chamberlain, Joseph
Chamberlain, Sir Austen
Château du Grand Clos
Chen, Percy
Cheong Ahlum
chess
Chicago
Chicago Daily News
Chin hills
China
and Biafra
and Burma
communist takeover
Cultural Revolution
mandarins
opium wars and seizure of Hong Kong
population
relationship with Hong Kong
rivalry with Soviet Union
Thatcher’s visits
Tiananmen Square massacre
China Association
China Coast
China Mail
Chinese National Petroleum Company
Chirac, Jacques
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ’s College, Cambridge
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, Winston
and Battle of Omdurman
education
and fall of Singapore
and his father
and Iraq
and Kitchener
and ‘liquidation of empire’
and reading
Shakespearian rhetoric
Churchill, Winston (grandson)
CIA
City of London
Clark, Dr G. B.
class system
Clemenceau, Georges
Clementi, Sir Cecil
clergymen’s sons
Clermont-Ganneau, Charles
Clifford, Sir Hugh
Clifton College
Clinton, Bill
Cochin-China
Colbeck, James
Colby, Bainbridge
Cold War
Collis, Maurice
Colonial Office
and Hong Kong
Colquhoun, Archibald
Commonwealth Office
Compagnie Française des Pétroles
concentration camps
concubinage
Conder, Claude
Confucianism
Congress of Berlin
Connaught, Duke of
Conservative Party
and Africa
and Biafra
and Burma
and Iraq
and Sudan
Constantinople
Corbyn, E. N.
Corn Laws
Cornwallis, Sir Kinahan
Cory, William Johnson
Cowper, Lord
Cowperthwaite, John
Cox, Percy
Cradock, Percy
Cranborne, Lord, see Salisbury, Lord
Creech Jones, Arthur
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Cromer, Lord (Sir Evelyn Baring)
Crosland, Anthony
Crosthwaite, Sir Charles
Crusaders
Cunliffe-Lister, Sir Philip
Cunningham, Sir George
Curzon, Lord
Curzon, Hon. Sophia Caroline
Cyprus
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Dalhousie, Lord
Danube, River
Dar Gimma
Darfur
Darwin, Charles
Darwinism
‘dash’
Davis, John
de Gaulle, Charles
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Delhi
democracy
and Hong Kong
and India
Deng Xiaoping
Dent’s merchants
Deutsche Bank
Devonshire, Duke of
Dimka, Buka Suka
Dinka people
Dir, Nawab of
direct rule
diseases
black-water fever
cholera
dysentery
malaria
smallpox
tuberculosis
typhoid
typhus
Disraeli, Benjamin
Dobbs, Sir Henry
Dodwell, S. H.
Dogras
Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec
Douthwaite, Lance-Corporal George Robert
Douthwaite, Priscilla
‘dual mandate’
Dufferin, Lord
Dulwich College
durbars
Dyer, Sir Reginald
Dykes, Colonel D. O. T.
East and West Association
East India College
East India Company
Eastern Arab Corps
Eaton Hall
Eden, Anthony
Edinburgh University
education
see also public schools
Edward III, King
Edward VII, King
Edwardes, Herbert
effendi
Effiong, Major General Philip
Egerton, Stephen
Egypt
Free Officers’ coup
and Sudan campaign
Egyptian army
Egyptians, Ancient
Eitel, E. J.
Ekiti province
El Fasher
El Mirghani, Ahmed
El Obeid
Elgin, Lord
Elizabeth II, Queen
Elliott, Mathilda Catherine
Elveden estate
Enugu
Enver Pasha
Epsom College
Eton College
‘Eton Maharajahs’
Euphrates, River
European Economic Community
Faisal I, King of Iraq
Faisal II, King of Iraq
Falklands War
Fallujah
Far Eastern Economic Review
fascism
Fatima (daughter of the Prophet)
Ferdinand, Archduke
Fettes College
feudal society
Fielding, Henry
Fields-Clarke, V. H. T.
First World War
and Kitchener
and Sudan
Foley, Maurice
Foreign Office
and Africa
and Hong Kong
and Iraq
and Nigeria
and Sudan
Forsyth, Sir Douglas
Forsyth, Frederick
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Foyle College
Foyle’s bookshop
France
African interests
Burmese interests
colonial administration
and Nigeria
oil interests
Franco-Prussian War
free trade
Freemasons
French Revolution
Friedman, Milton
Frontier Areas Committee
Fuad, King of Egypt
Fytche, Colonel Albert
Gabon
Galsworthy, John
gambling
Gandhi, Mahatma
Garvey, T. W.
Geary, Grattan
Geddes, Sir Eric
General Strike
Genoa
George III, King
George IV, King
George V, King
George VI, King
Germany
African interests
and Iraq
Nazi
oil interests
Ghana
Ghazi, King of Iraq
Gibbon, Edward
Gingell, Rev. John
Girl Guides
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glancy Commission
Glasgow
Glorious Revolution
Gloucester, Duke and Duchess of
Gobi Des
ert
Godber, Peter
Goderich, Viscount
Golden Book of India, The
Goldie, George
Gordon, General Charles George
Gordon Memorial College
Gordon Relief Expedition
Gould, Mr Justice
Government of India Act (1935)
Gowon, Yakubu
Grace, W. G.
Gracey, Sir Douglas
grammar schools
Grantham, Sir Alexander
Great Exhibition
‘Great Game’
Grenfell, Lieutenant Robert
Grindle, Sir Gilbert
Grobba, Dr Fritz
Guardian
Gulbenkian, Calouste
Gulbenkian, Nevarte
Gulbenkian, Nubar
Gwalior
Haditha
Haifa
Haldane, General Sir Aylmer
Halstead, Major
Hang Seng index
Hankey, Sir Maurice
Hardinge, Henry
Hardinge, Lord
Hargreaves Burton, Dorothy
Haroun al-Rashid
Harrow School
Hatfield House
Hausa people
Hayworth, Rita
Hazara
Hazratbal
Heath, Edward
Hejaz
Helm, Sir Knox
Henderson, Arthur
Heston, Charlton
Hicks, Major General William
Hindu mysticism
Hinduism
Hitler, Adolf
Hizb-ul Mujahideen
Hlutdaw
HMS Birmingham
HMS Sphynx
Ho Sze-mui
Ho Tung, Sir Robert
Hoare, ‘Mad Mike’
Hoff, Hans
Holland Jaques company
‘Holy Lion’
Hong Kong
bread poisoning scandal
brothels
cadet system
coolies
corruption
Dalton and Douthwaite case
and death penalty
and democracy
democratic reforms
drug abuse
evacuation plans
immigration
Japanese occupation
Joint Declaration
laissez-faire economics
Legislative Council
and luxury goods
New Territories
political disturbances
population
race and status
relationship with China
strikes
taipans
Young proposals
Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce
Hong Kong Club
Hong Kong Police
Hong Kong Reform Club
Hong Kong Standard
Hooper, Colonel Willoughby Wallace
Howell, E. B.
Howell, E. H.
Hsinbyumashin, Queen
Huddleston, Major Hubert
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hughes, Robert
Hughes, Tom
Hulme, J. W.
Humphrys, Sir Francis
Hunt, Sir David
Hunt, Ernest ‘Taffy’
Hunter, William
Hussein, King of Jordan
Hussein, Saddam
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif
Huxley, T. H.
Hyderabad
Ibadan
Ibn Saud
Ibsen, Henrik
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