Graduation Year
2020
Date of Submission
12-2019
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
History
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Jonathan Petropoulos
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2019 Aaryaman Sheoran
Abstract
The combination of nationalism and colonialism has remained understudied in academia, despite the important interaction between the two phenomena. European ideas bled over into their colonial empires and began to fill the power vacuum created by colonial enterprises. This study analyzes the impact of British colonialism on the development of national identity in British India and Nigeria.
British influences included large scale economic disruption, cultural reform through ‘westernizing’ the population and abolishing local customs, and creating a new set of institutions to replace traditional power centers. Inevitably, these factors created a nationalist surge across both the Raj and Nigeria, as new elites demanded political freedoms; national institutions and economic nationalism supported these demands. This study examines the importance of all three of these categories and tries to understand the importance of each in forging a unified national identity where there previously had been none.
Recommended Citation
Sheoran, Aaryaman, "Trickle Down Nationalism: Interactions Between Liberal Nationalism and Colonialism in the Raj and Nigeria" (2020). CMC Senior Theses. 2298.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2298
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