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Colonialism
November 19, 2015
Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed
Gandhi’s Unequal Justice in South Africa
The young lawyer fought the British empire for the rights of Indians, but not those of the Zulus he lived among.
May 17, 2014
Nina Caplan
How Gin Made British Colonialism Possible
May 17, 2013
Peter Green
The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
The epic of colonial India
September 16, 1991
Benedict Anderson
Four Blind Mice
April 11, 1949
The New Republic Staff
Winston Churchill's World
April 28, 1947
Phillips Talbot
As the British Empire Was Falling Apart, Gandhi Gave This Advice to the Rest of Asia

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