A Few Heroic Men
Priya Satia: Naoroji’s Tactics, 9 September 2021
Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism
by Dinyar Patel.
Harvard, 320 pp., £28.95, May 2020,978 0 674 23820 6 Show More
by Dinyar Patel.
Harvard, 320 pp., £28.95, May 2020,
“... to convey this understanding of history: even controversial figures like the rapacious conqueror Robert Clive were enrolled in the pantheon of imperial greatness. The statue of the Bristol slave trader Edward Colston, toppled last year, was put up in 1895, though he died in 1721. But the strategy was a failure: more people learned about Colston in the 24 ... ”