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This reissue of Sandar Panikkara (TM)s 1959 book is based upon a
series of lectures given at the Institut da (TM)Etude de
Development Economique et Social, which spotlights the problems
faced by the multitude of African and Asian states which achieved
independence between 1945 and 1957. From Asia, the author discusses
the plight of India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon, Vietnam,
Cambodia, laos, Syria and Lebanon whilst in Africa he assesses the
independence of the Sudan, Tunisia, Morroco and Ghana. The problems
faced by these countries have many similarities, not least the need
to develop systems of political organisation, administrative
services necessary for a modern government and the need to
completely reorganise their economy.
This reissue of Sandar Panikkar's 1959 book is based upon a series
of lectures given at the Institut d'Etude de Development Economique
et Social, which spotlights the problems faced by the multitude of
African and Asian states which achieved independence between 1945
and 1957. From Asia, the author discusses the plight of India,
Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Ceylon, Vietnam, Cambodia, laos, Syria
and Lebanon whilst in Africa he assesses the independence of the
Sudan, Tunisia, Morroco and Ghana. The problems faced by these
countries have many similarities, not least the need to develop
systems of political organisation, administrative services
necessary for a modern government and the need to completely
reorganise their economy.
INDIAN NATIONALISM - 1914-1918 - PREFATORY NOTES ONSIRIPERIALISM
AND NATIONALISM - IT is my good fortune to have a friend. Pro
foundly learned in the earliest mythologies, he lives for the more
part in that remote and unfrequented darkness which we conveniently
designate pre-history. The other day he came near to the haunts of
modern men, and said to me something like this At first the Empire
was a mere supremacy. This form of Imperialism became obsolete,
-supremacy was given, not a moral content, but a moral objective.
Of this half-moralised conception, Lord Milner is the principal
representative. It marked a step in the right direction, but it is
not sufficient unto. the needs of to-day, for it can hardly consist
with the newly-emergent claims of Nationality. We must make it
quite clear, in words and deeds, that the norm, the telos, of the
Empire is something more than a benevolent supremacy, -is a vital
synthesis of free peoples, an integration of Nationalities in and
through Freedom. If we do not do this at once, we shall prepare for
ourselves much trouble. I listened and I agreed. Years ago the new
Imperialism which my friend desiderates had been the burden of an
evenings talk with John MacNeill, and I had heard him say, We will
listen to you me will not listen to any English politician. I had
resumed the story in many a letter to another Irishman, -in letters
which became unavailingly known in Downing Street. Whispers from a
new life in West Africa had reached me. I had listened to Eastern
men while they exhibited to me the difference between the England
that spoke through Whitehall and the England they had been taught
to trust. I had been told of a continent in mourning when Tilakwas
imprisoned and ablaze with bonfires when he was released. I knew of
disappointment in Burma, of resentment in Ceylon, of smothered
dislike in Egypt. What could I do but agree with my friend 4 He had
told the truth. Turning an occasional eye from let us say Attys to
Tilak, he had discerned the Empires vital need. Now the opportunity
has come to me to write a few words prefatory to this book on
Indian Nationalism. My task is an easy one. I have to do little
more than emphasise the large conception towards which the authors
have worked. That conception makes the book much more than a plea
for Indian Nationalism. It is virtually a plea for a new
Imperialism, and it marks a new stage in the development of our
doctrine of the Empire...
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
1962.
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
1962.
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