Imperial Narcotic
Neal Ascherson, 18 November 2021
We’re Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire
by Ian SanjayPatel.
Verso, 344 pp., £20, April 2021,978 1 78873 767 8 Show More
by Ian SanjayPatel.
Verso, 344 pp., £20, April 2021,
“... independence.Such nonsense! It’s still humiliating that anyone accepted that bedtime story. As Ian Patel writes in We’re Here because You Were There, decolonisation ‘was from a British perspective uncontrollable, unwanted and unexpected. Direct imperial rule was dissolved largely in two currents of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia in the 1940s ... ”