In 1891, as the British empire continued to expand, Rudyard Kipling put his pen to its service with The English Flag. “And what should they know of England who only England know?” asked the poet, lamenting his compatriots’ ignorance of what he saw as the civilising mission of their empire.
In Empireworld, Sathnam Sanghera questions Britain’s wilful amnesia over the discomfiting legacy of empire across the globe. It’s a sequel to Empireland