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OXFORD AND EMPIRE By the same author THE MAKING OF PAKISTAN THE BRITISH AND THEIR SUCCESSORS INTERNATIONAL TARGETS FOR DEVELOPMENT (editorl THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE POPULATION QUESTION (with Michael Cara OXFORD AND EMPIRE The Last Lost Cause? Richard Symonds Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-1-349-18241-1 ISBN 978-1-349-18239-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-18239-8 © Richard Symonds 1986 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986 All rights reserved. For information, write: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 Published in the United Kingdom by The Macmillan Press Ltd. First published in the United States of America in 1986 ISBN 978-0-312-59362-9 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Symonds, Richard, 1918- 0xford and empire-the last lost cause? Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. University of Oxford-Faculty-Attitudes-History. 2. University of Oxford-Alumni-Attitudes-History. 3. Great Britain-Colonies. 4. Colonial administrators Great Britain-Attitudes-History. I. Title LF509.S95 1985 378.425'74 85-11870 ISBN 978-0-312-59362-9 For Ann Spokes Symonds Contents List of Plates ix Preface and Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xvi Note on Oxford Terminology xvii Introduction PART I THE PERCEPTION OF EMPIRE 1 The View from the Senior Common Room 9 2 Prophets, Classics and Philosopher Kings 24 3 Historians and Sentinels of Empire 47 4 The Round Table and their Friends 62 5 Professors, Prigs and Pedants - the Critics of Empire 80 PART II A GREAT IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY? 6 Benares on the Isis- Indian Studies and the Indian Institute 101 7 Muzzled Lions - the Scientists and Empire 123 8 Suburbs of the Celestial City - Geopoliticians, Anthropologists and Others 140 9 Rhodes and the Imperial Athens 161 PART Ill OXFORD OVERSEAS 10 A Share in the Appointments 184 11 The Missionaries 203 12 The Oxford of the Southern World and Education in the Empire 228 13 Nursing Mother of the Elect 257 14 Epilogue 284 15 Conclusions 294 VIII Contents Appendix: Statistics on Oxford Men and Women who Worked in the Empire 306 Notes 313 Select Bibliography 340 Index 355 List of Plates 1 Sir William Jones (memorial in University College, Oxford) 2 Benjamin Jowett 3 Lord Curzon as Viceroy of India 4 Sir George Parkin 5 Lord Milner 6 Cecil Rhodes as an undergraduate 7 Goldwin Smith 8 Milner's young men in South Africa 9 J. C. Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia (memorial in Merton Col lege) 10 Stained-glass window to James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, StPeter's College, Oxford 11 Weather-vane on old Indian Institute, Oxford 12 Mahatma Gandhi, boss in Church of StMary the Virgin, Oxford 13 Sir Monier Monier Williams 14 Rt Hon. Friedrich Max Mueller 15 Photograph from the album of Vincent Smith, I.C.S. 16 Sir William Osler 17 Cartoon of Sir E. Ray Lankester by Max Beerbohm 18 Sir William Schlich 19 Sir Halford Mackinder 20 Henry Balfour examining the first candidates for the diploma in social anthropology 21 Kingsley Fairbridge as a Rhodes Scholar 22 Revd Alek Fraser 23 S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike as an undergraduate 24 J. H. Hofmeyr 25 Margery Perham on safari 26 Somerville College group, 1890 27 Sir Ralph Furse 28 Dripstop of Sir Kenneth Wheare and kangaroo on Bodleian Library ix X List of Plates The author and publishers should like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Plates 1 and 7: the Master and Fellows of University College, Ox ford; Plate 2: the Master and Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford; Plate 3: Lady Alexandra Metcalfe; Plates 4, 5, 21 and 24: the Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; Plate 6: the Rhodes Trustees; Plate 8: the Editorial Committee of The Round Table; Plates 9 and 17: the Warden and Fellows of Merton College, Oxford; Plate 10: the Master and Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford; Plates 13 and 15: the Indian Institute Library, Oxford; Plate 14: the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford; Plates 16 and 25: the Bodleian Library; Plate 18: Commonwealth Forestry Review; Plate 19: the Oxford University School of Geography; Plate 20: the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford; Plates 22 and 23: the Royal Commonwealth So ciety; Plate 26: the Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford; Plate 27: the Imperial Forestry Institute, Oxford. Photographs for Plates I, 4, 5, 7, 10, 21 and 24 were provided by John Falconer; for Plates 2, 9, 14, 17 and 28 by Thomas Photos, Oxford (copyright); for Plates 11 and 12 by Oxford and County Newspapers (copyright); and for Plates 6, 13, 15, 16 and 25 by the Bodleian Library (copyright).
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