The anti-colonialist

Enlightened: Students participate in a ‘Walkout to fight Genocide and Free Palestine’ protest at Bruin Plaza in UCLA.— AFP

THE history of South Asia and most other outposts of the British (or the Dutch or French) is replete with the struggles of the ancestors of contemporary populations against colonisers who occupied the subcontinent for over two centuries.

The sum total of post-colonial history taught in most of the countries created as the sun set on the British Empire are, in fact, a compendium of the struggles of heroic fighters and thinkers who paved the way for independence.