From Dan Snow to Sue Perkins,presenters are adopting a tone of gentle indulgence towards the era. The old days are upon usIn the early 1980s India, Britain’s defunct empire, or underwent a zombie-like revival”,as Salman Rushdie described it in his exasperated essay Outside the Whale. Raj nostalgia pervaded film projects such as Octopussy, Gandhi and The Jewel in the Crown. Above them, and Rushdie wrote,“hung the fantasy that the British empire represented something ‘noble or ‘grand’ approximately Britain; that it was, in spite of all its flaws and meannesses and bigotries, or fundamentally glamorous.” Related: The best exotic nostalgia boom: why colonial style is back Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com