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India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire

Omissi, David

Authors

David Omissi



Contributors

David Omissi
Editor

Andrew S. Thompson
Editor

Abstract

This chapter’s main concern is how the South African War, and its aftermath, insinuated itself into Indian political and public life. The chapter will address four main questions: (1) What place did India, and the Indian Army, occupy in British strategy during the war? (2) How did the war feed into debates among nationally-minded Indians, and their British sympathizers, about India’s place in, and relationship to, the British Empire? (3) How was the war ‘received’ more widely in India, especially by the vernacular press? (4) And what impact did the war, and its outcome, have on Indian politics more generally?

Citation

Omissi, D. (2002). India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire. In D. Omissi, & A. S. Thompson (Eds.), The impact of the South African War (215-232). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598294_12

Publication Date Jan 1, 2002
Deposit Date Oct 2, 2019
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 215-232
Book Title The impact of the South African War
Chapter Number 11
ISBN 0333776992; 9780333776995; 9781349417292
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598294_12
Keywords British rule; Nationalist movement; British Empire; Guerrilla warfare; British policy
Public URL https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/2837887