The British left and India : metropolitan anti-imperialism, 1885-1947 /

Tracing the complex and troubled relationship between the British Left and the nationalist movement in India in the years before Indian independence, Nicholas Owen's study looks at the failure of British and Indian anti-imperialists to create the kind of powerful alliance that the Empire's...

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Main Author: Owen, Nicholas (Nicholas J.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Liberal anti-imperialism : the Indian National Congress in Britain, 1885-1906
  • Dilemmas of the metropolitan anti-imperialist, 1906-10
  • Edwardian progressive visitors to India, 1905-14
  • The decline, revival and fall of the British Committee of Congress, 1915-22
  • India and the Labour Party, 1922-8
  • India and the Labour Party, 1929-31
  • An anti-imperialist junction box? : metropolitan anti-imperialism in the early 1930s
  • An anti-fascist alliance, 1934-42
  • Labour and India, 1942-7.