The British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and former and current Home Secretaries Priti Patel and Suella Braverman are all second generation Indian East Africans. Families like theirs acquired a precarious status, subordinate to White settlers and officials but elevated above…
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Indians in Eastern Africa: Sir Henry Bartle Frere’s Vision and the Networks of Empire*
Tagged with: British Empire, India, Kenya, Priti Patel, Rishi Sunak, South Africa, Suella Braverman, Uganda
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What are the British Empire’s “Legacies”?
Before he became a beleaguered Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng wrote that “generations of politicians, historians and campaigners have made the British empire in their own image, promoting it as a vehicle for whatever cause they happen to espouse”. Since then, his…
The War on Woke is 200 years Old
One of the Brexit populists’ most successful political strategies, played out in the recent Tory leadership contest, has been culture war: an assault on reformist and liberal agendas including anti-racism, that are now condemned as “woke”. With Suella Braverman Priti…
Compensation and Dividends: Protecting British Property during the Transformation of Empire
by Alan Lester 1833 was a critical year for Britons who had invested in the Empire. Thanks to the work of the Legacies of British Slave Ownership team at UCL, we have got to know more about the thousands of…
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