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Lunchtime seminar: Mark Condos ‘Colonial Anxieties and the Making of British Power in India’

Wednesday 25th January, 2017

1pm, Room 3.17, Arts Two

On January 25, Mark Condos (Queen Mary University of London) will give a paper titled ‘Colonial anxieties and the making of British power in India.’

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. Read about other events we are holding this term.

The talk will take place in room 3.17, Arts Two Building, Mile End Campus, London E1 4NS. For directions to Mile End and a campus map, see bit.ly/QMcampusmap.