- Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
- Mid-Career Fellow 2017-18, Independent Social Research Foundation
Shah Rukh Khan’s new film sheds light on the history of UK migration policy.
Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
The Peterloo massacre was one of the worst atrocities committed on British soil, but across the empire there were many such acts.
Students need to be taught about colonialism’s dark past.
There is something disconcerting about the Western move to denounce the human rights records of post-colonial states.
The disdain for human life that underpinned the British Empire has been brought home.
We teach children about the birth and end of Empire, but miss out the violence of what happened in between.
The Tate’s latest exhibition, Artist and Empire, is long overdue.
How India’s prime minister secured a rehabilitation from a legacy of post-colonial violence.
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