An expert on Vidyasagar, Hinduism, and colonial Bengal, Hatcher enhances the original treatise with a substantial introduction describing Vidyasagar's multifaceted career, as well as the history of colonial debates on widow marriage.
Colonial debates also concerned the advantages and disadvantages of subak water division technology based on continuous proportional irrigation, in comparison with modern engineering technology based on absolute and rotational forms of water division (see Booth 1977; Horst 1996).
She is particularly interested in complicating "Korean uniqueness" within a larger multi-ethnic Japanese empire after 1939, and its transference to the colonial fascism debate.
The team's successes provoked pangs of guilt over past mistreatment of Aboriginal people, and Wills became the single point through which colonial society debated European settlement and future relations between the races.
Since the 1960s, when France lost the last of its overseas empire and, with some ambivalence, began opening its borders to its former colonial subjects, the debate has increasingly been about the status of France's estimated 5 million Arab and Muslim citizens.
The answer is that, unlike them, modern Germany has made a serious institutional effort to debate its colonial past and engage with former colonies on issues including reparations and formal apology.
It's glorification of slavery, on the night of a debate about colonial reparations, no less".
Students have accused the Oxford Union of racism after it sold a cocktail named the "colonial comeback" at a debate about the British Empire.
The Crown had spent vast amounts of money on the war — money that somehow was going to have to be regained — and this sort of basic economic reality was going to end up launching a debate about colonial rights and privileges that obviously down the road is going to have some pretty big consequences.
In spite of the diverse opposition to the HEF's and VF's edits, which included many South Asians, the two Hindu organizations initially drew on the binary terms of colonial discourse, constructing the debate as a simplistic opposition between white, secular, elite intellectuals and brown, ordinary believers, who could lay claim to possessing an authentic knowledge of Hinduism.
