Heroic imperialists in Africa

Sèbe, Berny

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“…112 These works, as well as an expanding body of scholarly biographies, 113 demonstrate that a growing feeling of what Sèbe has called Saharomania permeated the French imagination, which found in this environment a combination of exoticism, purity and religious undertones that fitted many heroic reputations. 114 The fame of explorers like Henri Duveyrier, religious figures such as Charles de Foucauld and failed (Flatters) or triumphant (Laperrine) conquerors owed much to the growing fascination with the vast expanses of the Sahara which reached its climax between the wars, but persisted into the decolonisation era and beyond.…”

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Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Britain and France

Jones¹,

Sèbe²,

Strachan³

et al. 2014

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Britain and France

Jones¹,

Sèbe²,

Strachan³

et al. 2014

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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“…66 Imperial hero worship was a favorite tactic of Conservative commentators and politicians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 67 Although there was a strong Conservative interest in the Clive Memorial Fund and in Clive as an imperial hero, the appeal of the fund in Britain was bipartisan. With the rise of Liberal imperialism, from the 1890s onward there was a marked attempt within the party to contest the Conservative monopoly over imperial fervor.…”

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Contested Statues: The Clive Memorial Fund, Imperial Heroes, and the Reimaginings of Indian History

Watts

2024

J. Br. Stud.

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This article considers the Clive Memorial Fund and the campaigns surrounding proposed statues to Robert Clive in London and Calcutta between 1907 and 1912. The author argues that this campaign was an attempt to glorify Clive's actions, focused on the battle of Plassey and its aftermath, as foundation stones for the Indian Empire. The statues were an anxious attempt to situate Britain as a natural part of Indian history, but the campaign instead provoked a developing Indian counternarrative around resistance to colonial rule, particularly from newspapers in Bengal. Although the fund garnered support in Britain, it was greeted in India with official irritation and widespread Indian opposition, highlighting the importance of considering imperial statues in their imperial frame. This reaction, demonizing Clive's treachery and praising his opponent, Siraj-ud-Daula, the nawab of Bengal, was indicative of the place of history in both Bengali nationalism and imperial self-identity. Using newspapers in Britain and Bengal and the correspondence of the Clive Memorial Committee, the author examines the competing narratives of history that emerged in the campaigns around the fund.

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Heroic imperialists in Africa

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Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Britain and France

Decolonising Imperial Heroes: Britain and France

Contested Statues: The Clive Memorial Fund, Imperial Heroes, and the Reimaginings of Indian History

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