The decolonial killjoy: the British Raj as a space of political utopia

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The decolonial killjoy: the British Raj as a space of political utopia

Utopianism and colonialism have an intrinsically linked history. Thomas More’s eponymous Utopia (1516) was a settler colony after all, and the global spread of colonialism carried an ideological justification that had an implicit utopian explanation. The historiography of the British Raj is no excep...

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Main Author:	Ahmed, Ibtisam
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Utopias; Utopianism; Decolonial; Decolonization; India History British occupation 1765-1947
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/69234/

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