Parting Gifts of Empire Entomology Purple Heart Boxes

Purple Heart Boxes

13 The Macroscopic

A new history of modern Britain that makes sense of its contradictions today

translated for the first time into English

Parting Gifts of Empire Entomology Purple Heart BoxesParting Gifts of Empire narrates an untold story of how Arabs and South Asians in the twentieth century sought to decolonize their minds. The histories of Palestine and Indiaboth partitioned by the British Empirewere intimately linked. In the face of the same imperially created chasm, intellectuals in Africa and Asia reinvigorated centuries of shared histories to forge new horizons, new solidarities, new institutions, and new fields of knowledge.