The Chaos of Empire

by Jon Wilson

  8Data from http://populationcommission.nic.in/content/933_1_LiteracyRate.aspx, last accessed 1 May.

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  10Roland Hunt and John Harrison, The District Officer in India, 1930–1947 (London, 1980), xv.

  11Calculated from ibid., xi–xx.

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  14Owen, ‘The Conservative Party and Indian Independence, 1945–1947’, 414; Camilla Schofield, Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (2013), 66; Peter Brooke, ‘India, Post-Imperialism and the Origins of Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” Speech’, The Historical Journal, l (2007).

  15Schofield, Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, 73, 69.

  16Hannah Arendt, On Violence (San Diego, CA, 1970), 44.

  17Paul M. McGarr, ‘“The Viceroys Are Disappearing from the Roundabouts in Delhi”: British Symbols of Power in Post-Colonial India’, Modern Asian Studies, xlix (2015), 8, 15.

  18Jayanta Sengupta, ‘Kolkata’s Landmark Victoria Memorial Hall Getting Makeover’, Kolkata, Economic Times (2015); ‘Section of Metro’s Heritage Corridor Tunnel Complete’, Economic Times (2015); Jyoti Rai, ‘100 Yrs of History, Glory of Capital Delhi’, Chandigarh, The Tribune (2011).

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