Sentence examples for colonial connection from inspiring English sources

The colonial connection left strange patterns on the minds of the connected.

Indeed, despite a brief stint in a Hong Kong bank, Wodehouse had no colonial connection himself, and the Raj is largely absent from his books.

The French had a reed-thin colonial connection to the subcontinent, and in 1674, on behalf of Louis XIV, they negotiated the creation of a trading post at Pondicherry on the southeastern coast of the Bay of Bengal.

For a bleaker view of the British colonial connection, try Tayeb Salih's masterpiece Season of Migration to the North, in which Hussein's optimism about relations with the West is seen as a sinister struggle for influence.

Of course, there is no shame in acknowledging that English is a legacy of the colonial connection, but one no less useful and valid than the railways, the telegraphs or the law courts that were also left behind by the British.

For a window on the colonial connection, head to La Maison de la Revue Noire.

They were still new and exotic; and there were English people both high and low, with a taste for social adventure, a wish from time to time to break out of England, and people with colonial connections who wished in London to invert the social code of the colonies — there were English people who were ready to seek out the more stylish and approachable of the new arrivals.

Inquiries of Hecataeus's kind had a certain practical application: knowledge of the world, in the most literal sense of that phrase, was of obvious usefulness in a city like Miletus with its colonial connections (in the Black Sea region) and its long-distance trade.

Her peers perhaps won't be grateful that her position asks questions of them; not just the poets still on the TS Eliot shortlist, but also novelists with hopes of the Booker prize, which was slated for Booker's "colonial" connections in John Berger's 1972 victory speech but which, as the Man Booker prize, is now sponsored by a leading hedge fund, the Man Group.

Owing to its colonial connections, nothing says "bull-whipping a native in a dusty market square outside Khartoum" quite like an Englishman drinking a gin and tonic.

"She acquired pieces more for their aesthetic appeal than for their connection to Colonial America.