Empireland Quotes

“It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the shins one afternoon because you helped an old lady across the road in the morning.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a poor third-class degree from Oxford. Furse's selection process was designed to eliminate anyone too smart: dependability was the thing most desired. The last thing anyone wanted was for men in the field to analyse what they were doing.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain

“the Prince of Wales, went on a series of imperial tours, being greeted by a banner at Aden in 1921 which declared: ‘TELL DADDY WE ARE ALL HAPPY UNDER BRITISH RULE’.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

“Trader, The Owner, The Slave by James Walvin.”
― Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain