The British Empire (TRIH ep 68)
1952 · Resource
Hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland interview Satnam Sanghera about his book Empireland. The conversation explores the complexity and contested nature of the British Empire — its mixture of greed, missionary zeal, culture, violence and bureaucracy — and the difficulty of reducing it to a simple moral balance sheet. Sanghera describes the hostile and at times racist reaction he's received, and discusses his personal perspective as a Sikh from Wolverhampton, including how the British classi...
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