The contraction of England : an inaugural lecture, 1984 -- The twentieth-century revolutions in Monsoon Asia -- India and Britain : the climactic years 1917-1947 -- The forgotten Bania : merchant communities and the Indian National Congress -- Counterpart experiences : India/Indonesia, 1920s-1950s -- Emergencies and elections in India -- East Africa : towards the new order, 1945-1963 / with John Lonsdale -- Africa year, 1960 -- The end of the British Empire in Africa -- History and independent Africa's political trauma -- Political superstructures in post-colonial states. A register of constructs ; A dislocated polity : Uganda, 1960-86 -- Little Britain and large Commonwealth. The post-imperial Commonwealth ; Commonwealth studies and Commonwealth countries -- Australia in the eastern hemisphere.
Summary:
The middle decades of the twentieth century witnessed the great dramas of the ending of Western imperial rule in Africa and Asia. A series of nationalist onslaughts was launched against the British Empire and these greatly reshaped the modern world. Professor Anthony Low has studied the end of the British Empire and its aftermath for many years. This volume brings together for the first time many of his major essays on the subject.
