India: Some Perceptions of Race and Empire

Omissi, David

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