Dear All
All are welcome to the Centre for the History of the Emotions' first lunchtime seminar of 2017. On January 25 at 1pm Mark Condos (Queen Mary University of London) will be giving a paper titled ‘Colonial anxieties and the making of British power in India.’ The talk will take place in room 3.17, Arts Two Building.
This talk will explore what may be called the ‘dark underside’ of the ideologies that sustained the British Raj. I will argue that the British in India were obsessed with a fearfulness and an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers, and that these enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled executive power placed in the hands of district officers.
All talks are free, booking not needed. Lunch will be provided. For directions to Mile End and a campus map, see bit.ly/QMcampusmap.
Best wishes
Helen
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