Empire, the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920

From anti-colonialism to anti-imperialism: the evolution of H. M. Hyndman's critique of empire,c.1875-1905

“… Consequently, Davitt classed his country as the ‘nursery’ of ideas on land reform and nationalization. Nevertheless, this meant that Ireland was moving, albeit slowly, to Home Rule of its own accord and its people had a prominent voice in Britain. Consequently, Hyndman began to reduce his Irish agitation.…”

The Empire Writes Back: African Challenges to the Brutish (South African) Empire in the Early 20th Century

“…87 Trust in empire received a further battering with massacres in Bulhoek, Bondelswarts and Amritsar, making openings for Garveyism and socialism. 88 The spread of anti-imperialism would challenge empire's very foundations.…”

Re-imagining South Africa via a Passage to India: M.K. Jeffreys's Archive of the Indian Ocean World

“…The SAIC's appeal to India for intervention in South Africa and the INC's investment in the issues at stake for South African Indians are indicative Downloaded by [Florida International University] at 00:53 27 December 2014 not only of a diasporic politics, but, more pertinently, of the kinds of southsouth or margin to margin solidarities constructed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that scholars are beginning to excavate as they reconfigure colonial, and postcolonial, worlds (ef., inter alia , Boehmer, 2002). As Mesthrie sur mises: 'The plight of Indians overseas in the Empire was taken up by the INC; in large part, 'because it exposed the iniquities of the British Empire and it placed pressure on the Indian government to respond'; thus, the 'position of Indians overseas became strongly linked to the Indian freedom struggle' (Mesthrie, 1987: 48).…”