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of Wales was in his interactions with the child prince who replaced the troublesome gaekwad, Albert Edward could never escape the perception of the Indian press that British rule was fundamentally illiberal. To many South Asian intellectuals, the rule of law – endlessly used by the British to legitimise imperial rule over local misrule and despotism – represented a tool of imperial rule, employed
about British inaction to live up to the promises of the liberal empire as violent and illiberal action. As a transitional period, the late nineteenth-century empire was a dynamic and interconnected political space where a modern, global politics of respectability and imperial citizenship was made. In this context, the nationalist political movements of the twentieth century have their origins in local
. These have to do with his observers’ investment in his migrant status, i.e., their determination to affix the nature of his English self. When Ranjitsinhji – the England cricketer and the Indian who had triumphed over illiberal ideas – became the ruler of Nawanagar, there was an understandable anticipation that he would initiate an open and even representative regime in which the local middle class and business communities, including the groups John McLeod has characterized broadly as “the politicians,” 306 would have a
Herald stated that there was a need ‘for stern action to restore peace and order in Kenya’ and that collective punishment constituted illiberal measures that were needed to end ‘a brutal and barbarous campaign of terror’. 44 This disagreement over the issue of collective punishment constitutes only one of the differences between the Scottish papers on how best to handle the
inhibited in their actions by the perception that such legislation would be unpopular with the UK public. Specifically ministers feared that any attempt to control the inward migration of British subjects of colour would be condemned as ‘illiberal’ by the ‘more vocal elements’ of public opinion. 46 Given the editorials running in journals such as The Economist and even popular newspapers such as the Daily
. For all his illiberal appearance, Templer was in fact committed to political advance and police reform. Moreover, his arrival in Malaya early in 1952 coincided with the replacement of Gray by Colonel Arthur Young. Indeed, in stressing Young’s shock at finding ‘what he called a “Police State”’, 24 Purcell weakened his attack upon Templer, for Young was commenting upon the situation which the new High
India, for example, the police were customarily deployed in a more forceful and distressingly illiberal ‘political’ way. 22 Something of this quite beguiling order seems to have held good: exactly how much, and under what kind of durable local and popular conditions, is a large and intriguing historical question. None of this is to say that those who guarded Cape Town’s lingering liberal capitalist
the Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Wesleyan Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, and Anglican Churches in South Africa, unanimously supporting imperial policy. The Rev. J. S. Moffat, who had himself held an official British position in Bechuanaland, argued in one pamphlet that the Boer War was akin to the American Civil War, that the British were fighting for the rights of blacks against the illiberalities
to the Great Trek, tended to valorise the white racism of modern South Africa. W. M. Macmillan was first to draw attention to the fundamentally illiberal nature of both the frontier and the Great Trek, but it was Eric Walker, in 1930, who attempted, far more profoundly than Fouché, to apply Turner’s thesis to the South African frontier. The result was highly original. 10 What Walker
System in Rajasthan’, published in the May–August 1831 issue of the Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register , was in fact a letter to the Editor in which Tod justifies and defends himself against ‘an illiberal and insidious attack upon my work’ that had appeared as part of a critical review of Mr Gleig’s History of India in the journal. 42 In a spirit of fair play, Tod first quotes the passage from