Ghosts of Empire (75 page)
Authors: Kwasi Kwarteng
Lebanon
Ledwidge, Bernard
Lehár, Franz
Lenin, V. I.
Lesseps, Ferdinand, Vicomte de
Liberal Party
and Burma
Lin Zexu
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln College, Oxford
Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton
Lisbon
Listowel
Litchfield, Major
Liverpool
Lloyd, Lord
Lloyd, Selwyn
Lloyd George, David
local government
London
Burma conference
and Burma trade
and fall of Hashemites
gentlemen's clubs
and Hari Singh blackmail
London School of Economics
Londonderry
Los Angeles
Louis XIV, King
Lu Xan
Lugard, Lord
Lyttelton, Oliver
Lytton, Lord
Macartney, Lord
Macau
Macaulay, Lord
MacDonald, Malcolm
MacDonald, Ramsay
McIver, Lewis
McKellar, Kenneth
MacLehose, Murray
Macleod, Iain
MacMichael, Harold
Macmillan, Harold
Macpherson, D. R. de C.
Madeira
Madras
Maffey, Sir John
Magdalen College, Oxford
Magna Carta
Mahdi, the
Major, John
Malawi
Manchester
Mandalay
Modi Monastery fire
royal palace
Mao Zedong
Marfels, Dr
Marks, Dr John
Marlborough, Duke of
Marx, Karl
Maskelyne, Professor Nevil
Matheson, James
Maugham, Somerset
The Painted Veil
Mayo, Lord
Mayo College
Mead, Walter Russell
Mecca
Medina
Menon, V. P.
Merchiston Castle
Mesopotamia,
see
Iraq
see
Iraq
Messervy, General Sir Frank
Mexican War
Mexico
Middle East Economic Survey
Mikardo, Ian
Milan
Milner, Alfred
Mindon, King of Burma
Minhla
miscegenation
Miss World pageant
Mohammed, Prophet
Mohammed, Murtala
Mohammed Ali Pasha
Mohammed Sherif, Sheikh
Mohra
Mombasa
Mon people
Monck-Mason, George
Montagu, Edwin
Monte Carlo
Montesquieu
Montreux
Morel, E. D.
Morgan, F. P. Stuart
Morocco
Morris, James (Jan)
Morton, Major Desmond
Morton, Jack
Moscow Gazette
Mossadeq, Mohammed
Mosul
Mountbatten, Edwina
Mountbatten, Lord
Moylan, E. K.
Moyne, Lord
Mozambique
Mubarak, Hosni
Mudie, Francis
Mufti of Jerusalem
Mughal emperors
Mumbai
Murray, A. E. F.
Murray, Gilbert
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslim League
Mussolini, Benito
Mustagh Pass
Mysore
Nairobi
Najaf
Napier, Sir Charles
Naples
Nash, Philip
Nasser, Gamal Abdel
National African Trading Company
National Farmers' Union
National Islamic Front
Nazi Germany
Nazis
Ne Win
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nelson, Admiral Lord
neo-conservatism
Nepal
Neve, Dr Ernest F.
New Nigerian
New Penny Magazine
New Statesman
New York
New York Times
New Zealand
Newbold, Douglas
newspaper reporting
Nicolson, Harold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Niger, River
Nigeria
abolition of federation
amalgamation
Biafran secession
British arms supplies
Christian missionaries
elite education
immigrants
independence
indirect rule
local treaties
military coups
oil resources
political parties and elections
population
post-war constitutions
railways
tribalism and corruption
tripartite division
uneven development
Nile, River
Nimeiri, Gaafar
Noel-Baker, Philip
North German Gazette
North Rumaila oilfield
North West Frontier Province
Northern People's Congress
Nupé, King of
Nuremberg trials
Nzeogwu, Patrick
Obuchi, Keizo
O'Donnell, Thomas
oil price
Ojukwu, Chukwuemeka
Ojukwu, Sir Louis
Okotie-Eboh, Festus
Okpara, Dr Michael
Omdurman
Omdurman, Battle of
Omdurman Radio
OPEC
opium
Organization of African Unity
Orkney Islands
Ormsby-Gore, William
O'Rourke, P. J.
Orwell, George
Osborne House
Ottoman Empire
Owen, David
Oxfam
P&O
Pagan Min, King of Burma
Pakistan
Martyrs Day
nuclear testing
partition and loss of Kashmir
wars with India
Palestine
Palestine Exploration Fund
Palmerston, Lord
Pandrethan estate
Paris
Paris International Exhibition
Paris peace conference
Parker, J. R. W.
Parnell, Charles Stewart
Parsons, Anthony
Parsons, Richard
Pashtun tribesmen
Patel, Sardar
paternalism
Patten, Chris
Paul VI, Pope
Pax Britannica
Pearce, Major General C. F. B.
Pearl Harbor
Pearn, B. R.
Peel, Viscount
Peking,
see
Beijing
see
Beijing
âPeople's Budget'
People's Daily
Perham, Margery
Perowne, Stewart
Persia,
see
Iran
see
Iran
Persian Gulf
Peshawar
Pethick, Emmeline
Pethick-Lawrence, Lord
Philby, Harry St John
photography
Plato
Plymouth
Polk, Frank
pongyis
Ponsonby, General Sir Henry
Poonch, Raja of
Pope-Hennessy, John
Port Sudan
Pottinger, Sir Henry
Poynton, Hilary
Pravda
Prendergast, General Harry
public schools
and Hong Kong
and India
and Nigeria
Punjab
Qadeer, Abdul
Qayum, Abdul
Quantrill, W. E.
Queen's College
racial attitudes
Radio Biafra
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Ralli, Padelli
Ramadan
Rance, Sir Hubert
Rangoon
and Japanese occupation
Rangoon University
Rashid Ali
Reading, Lord
Red Cross
Red Line Agreement
Red Sea
Rees-Williams, David
Reform Bills
Renton, Sir David
Rewa, Maharaja of
Rhodes, Cecil
Rhodes, Colonel Frank
Rhodesia
rice
Richard, Henry
Richards, Sir Arthur
Ripon, Lord
Ritchie, Sir Adam
Roberts, Andrew
Roberts, Denys
Roberts, Goronwy
Robertson, Sir James
Robinson, Hercules
Robinson, Mrs
Rogers, M. H. G.
Roman Catholicism
Romania
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Rosen, Carl-Gustav von
Rosenthal, Victor
Rossall School
Rothschilds
Rowlands, Ted
Royal Air Force
Royal Albert Hall
Royal Artillery
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Engineers
Royal Geographical Society
Royal Hong Kong Golf Club
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst
Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Royal Navy
Royal Niger Company
Royal Society of St George
rubies
Ruder Finn agency
Rugby School
Rushdie, Salman
Russell, Bertrand
Russia
see also
Soviet Union
see also
Soviet Union
Rwanda
Said, Edward
St John, Oliver
St Mary's Redcliffe School
Saint-Prot, Charles
Salisbury, Lord
San Remo Agreement
Sanskrit
Sant Dev, Swami
Sargent, Inge
Sassoon, Frederick
Sassoon, Siegfried
Saudi Arabia
Saya San
Schubert, Franz
âScramble for Africa'
Second World War
Sedgwick, P. C. M.
Seychelles
Shakespeare, William
Henry V
Shan people
Shanghai
Sharif, Omar
Sharpe, Mrs
Shatt al Arab
Shaw, Charlotte
Shaw, Flora
Shaw, Robert
Shell/BP
Shirazi, Sheikh Muhammad
Shuckburgh, Sir John
Shudo, Mr
Shwé Yon
Siam, invasion of
Sikh Empire
silk
Simla
Simon, Sir John
Sinderson, Sir Harry
Singapore
Singh, Amar
Singh, Duleep
Singh, Gulab
Singh, Sir Hari
Singh, Karan
Singh, Sir Pratap
Singh, Ranbir
Singh, Ranjit
Slade, Sir Edmund
Sladen, Colonel Edward
slave trade, Sudanese
slavery
African
Slim, Lieutenant General Sir William
Smith, Adam
Smith, Ian
Smith, John Abel
Smithers, Peter
Smuts, Jan
Sokoto, Sardauna of (Ahmadu Bello)
Sokoto, Sultan of
Somme offensive
South Africa
South China Morning Post
Soviet Union
and Nigeria
oil interests
rivalry with China
and Sudan
see also
Russia
Russia
Soyinka, Wole
Spain
sports
boxing
cricket
fencing
fishing
fives
golf
horse racing
hunting
pigsticking
polo
rugby
shooting
soccer
tennis
Sprye, Captain Richard
Srinagar
Stalin, Josef
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Stanley, Lord
Stanley, Oliver
Steel brothers
Steevens, G. W.
Steinbach, Colonel Henry
Storrs, Sir Ronald
Stubbs, Reginald
Suakin
Sudan
Ali Dinar rebellion
Bashir coup
âBlacks ruled by Blues'
Bog Barons
Christian missions
civil wars
condominium arrangement
and Darfur crisis
and First World War
geography
independence
and Islam
âNilotic Conservatism'
Nimeiri coup
oil discovery
population
religious fanaticism
slave trade
âSouthern Policy'
Torit mutiny
undeveloped south
Sudan Communist Party
Sudan Defence Force
Sudan Loyalty Book
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA)
Sudan Political Service
and sexual austerity
Sudan Times
Sudan Tribune
Sudanese Legislative Assembly
Suez Canal
Suez crisis
sugar
Sunday Times
Supayalat, Queen
Sweden
Switzerland
Sykes, F, H.
Sykes, Sir Mark
SykesâPicot Agreement
Symes, E. S.
Symes, Captain Michael
Symes, Colonel Sir Stewart
Syria
Taiwan
Tanganyika
Tara Devi, Maharani
Tashkent
Teagle, Walter
Teheran
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Thailand
Than Shwe
Tharrawaddy
Thatcher, Margaret
Thein Sein
Thesiger, Wilfred
Thibaw, King of Burma
Thirkell White, Herbert
Thomas, Graham
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