![]() ![]() Erudite, but highly readable, this book will be definitely be on my reading lists for students. It’s also a hopeful book, indicating ways out of mythological cul-de-sacs. ![]() ![]() By doing so, it tackles the whole premise of British liberal imperial progress and benevolence which remains so pervasive to this day. It argues convincingly that, when it did occur, British anti-colonialism in the metropole was forged through exposure to imperial insurgency. This impressive book challenges the assumptions that underpin many academic and journalistic understandings of the British empire it restores the idea of resistance and dissent, placing anti-colonial struggle from the 1857 uprising in India, to Mau Mau in Kenya, at the heart of historical change. Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good ImmigrantĪ superb study of anticolonial resistance Guardian Her work is essential to showing how empire and colonialism pervades every nook and cranny of the British establishment today and why we should all continue to speak truth to power, like she does every damn day. ![]() Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)Īn astonishing writer and thinker, one who is fearless in how she uses history to explain where we are now. Gopal has calmly and authoritatively produced this impressive study of resistance against Empire, in the face of the kind of constant hostility that only serves to reminds us why her work is so urgent in the first place. ![]()
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