April 9 A New Role in the World

A. Decline?

B. The British Commonwealth of Nations
Jan Smuts
Imperial War Cabinet
Balfour Declaration (1926)
Statute of Westminster (1931)

Canada 725,000
Australia 940,000
New Zealand 205,000
South Africa 200,000

C. Decolonization

case study: India

Indian National Congress (1885)
Muslim League (1906)
communalism

Mohandas K. Gandhi
satyagraha (soul force) [clip]
1920-1922, 1929-1933: non-cooperation movements
Second World War
Sir Stafford Cripps (Mar 1942)
Quit India!
repression and communal violence
partition

Gandhi
Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
short stories of Sadaat Hasan Manto
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children

partition as extraction strategy: Ireland, India, Palestine

decolonization era

The Commonwealth of Nations