An edition of Insurgent Empire
(2019)
Insurgent Empire
Anticolonialism and the Making of British Dissent
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by Priyamvada Gopal
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First Sentence
"On 4 August 1857, some three months after the commencement of the insurgency in India, though it is unlikely he was aware of it at the time, former slave and American abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech in Rochester, in New York State, felicitating a different revolutionary moment."
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. vii
Introduction: Enemies of Empire. 1
PART I. CRISES AND CONNECTIONS
1. The Spirit of the Sepoy Host: The 1857 Uprising in India and Early British Critics of Empire. 41
2. A Barbaric Independence: Rebel Voice and Transnational Solidarity, Morant Bay, 1865. 83
3. The Accidental Anticolonialist: Egypt's 'Urabi' Rebellion and the Late Victorian Critiques of Imperialism. 127
4. Passages to Internationalism: The 'New Spirit' in India and Edwardian Travellers. 166
PART II. AGITATIONS AND ALLIANCES
5. The Interpreter of Insurgencies: Shapurji Saklatvala and Democratic Voice in Britain and India. 209
6. The Revolt of the Oppressed World: British Internationalism from Meetut to the League against Imperialism. 245
7. Black Voices Matter: Race, Resistance and Reverse Pedagogy in the Metropole.
8. Internationalizing African Opinion: Race, Writing and Resistance. 319
9. Smash Our Own Imperialism: George Padmore, the New Leader and 'Colonial Fascism'. 355
10. A Terrible Assertion of Discontent: 'Mau Mau' and the Imperial Benevolence. 395
Epilogue: That Wondrous Horse of Freedom. 442
Notes. 475
Bibliography. 547
Index. 583
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