![]() ![]() “Everyone gets it in journalism, right? But this experience has made me realise I probably get it more than most,” he says. Sanghera says he has previously received “degrees” of racist abuse as one of the few people of colour working as a Fleet Street columnist. (However, he is trolled relentlessly by the resurgent Hindu right over what he’s written about the Mughals.) Suddenly there’s brown people taking ownership of this story and it’s really triggering for so many people.”īy contrast, William Dalrymple, a historian who writes on similar topics to Sanghera and Olusoga in his books and has been scathing about Britain’s “ vast ignorance of everything that is most uncomfortable about our imperial past”, says he has not received a single piece of hate mail from a British person. But he also challenges the way the imperial story has always been told, which is a 50-year-old white man on TV, often getting off a train in India a nostalgic view. David challenges the hierarchy of empire. And so when you have brown people like David or me talking about empire, it triggers people in a really deep way. You’re talking about white people conquering brown people. “When you talk about empire, you’re talking about race, really. ![]() It’s become a proxy for patriotism and race,” says Sanghera. ![]() Now there’s this idea that you need to be proud of imperial history to be proud of the country and vice versa. “Empire has been weaponised by the right wing, ever since Black Lives Matter. ![]()
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