Separate And Unequal: India And The Indians In The British Commonwealth 1920-1950
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Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of empire and identity, Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth 1920-1950 presents a meticulously researched account of how Indians — both within the subcontinent and scattered across the far reaches of the British Empire — were systematically subjected to racial discrimination and political marginalisation in the very Commonwealth that claimed to bind its members in shared values. Hugh Tinker chronicles three pivotal decades in which the ideals of imperial brotherhood collided violently with the lived realities of Indian communities in East Africa, South Africa, Malaya, and the Caribbean, exposing the vast gulf between colonial rhetoric and colonial practice. Tinker, one of the foremost British historians of South and Southeast Asian affairs, brings formidable scholarly rigour and moral clarity to a subject too long confined to the footnotes of imperial history. His work argues persuasively that the treatment of Indian peoples within the Commonwealth was not an aberration but a structural feature of British imperial governance — one rooted in race, economic interest, and political expediency. Written with the authority of archival depth and the precision of a seasoned analyst, this landmark study forces a reckoning with the uncomfortable contradictions at the heart of the British imperial project, leaving the reader to wonder how deeply those contradictions continue to shape the post-colonial world.
Author: Hugh Tinker
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, University of Queensland Press.,
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of empire and identity, Separate and Unequal: India and the Indians in the British Commonwealth 1920-1950 presents a meticulously researched account of how Indians — both within the subcontinent and scattered across the far reaches of the British Empire — were systematically subjected to racial discrimination and political marginalisation in the very Commonwealth that claimed to bind its members in shared values. Hugh Tinker chronicles three pivotal decades in which the ideals of imperial brotherhood collided violently with the lived realities of Indian communities in East Africa, South Africa, Malaya, and the Caribbean, exposing the vast gulf between colonial rhetoric and colonial practice. Tinker, one of the foremost British historians of South and Southeast Asian affairs, brings formidable scholarly rigour and moral clarity to a subject too long confined to the footnotes of imperial history. His work argues persuasively that the treatment of Indian peoples within the Commonwealth was not an aberration but a structural feature of British imperial governance — one rooted in race, economic interest, and political expediency. Written with the authority of archival depth and the precision of a seasoned analyst, this landmark study forces a reckoning with the uncomfortable contradictions at the heart of the British imperial project, leaving the reader to wonder how deeply those contradictions continue to shape the post-colonial world.