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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

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The momentous events of India achieving independence and the simultaneous partitioning of the subcontinent in 1947 have primarily been studied from the political perspective. This path-breaking volume explores neglected aspects of the tremendous upheavals that accompanied these events, concentrating on popular perceptions and psychological impacts. The contributors consider aspects of the appalling massacres which accompanied Partition and In...

An account of the recent unsuccessful attempts in Asia and Africa to create egalitarian rural societies.

Sir Keith Hancock KBE (1898-1984) was the most distinguished scholar in the humanities and social sciences to have been born and to have worked in Australia. He was a graduate of the University of Melbourne, a Rhodes Scholar and the first Australian Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He successively held History chairs at the universities of Adelaide, Birmingham, Oxford and London and at the Australian National University. Aged 32 he publish...

Eclipse of Empire brings together the work of one of the foremost historians of the recent colonial experience to provide comprehensive outline accounts of the end of the British Empire in India and in Africa, and to assess the many sociopolitical ramifications of this process. No other study has approached the whole twentieth century decolonization process so comprehensively.

This book examines how and why the British were able to establish a colonial government in what became known as 'Uganda'.

Anthony Low examines the distinctive character of the most momentous independence struggle of the twentieth century.