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Resistance in the British empire

Priyamvada Gopal speaks about her book Insurgent Empire, which explores opposition to British colonial rule

Attack on the Court-House, St. Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, during the Morant Bay rebellion, October 1865. (Photo by Getty Images)

Priyamvada Gopal speaks about her book Insurgent Empire, which explores opposition to British colonial rule both within the empire and in Britain itself.

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