Mirroring its British masters by Felipe Costa Lima

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Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and reform: constructing an Islamic universe in the British official mind, 1860-1914 by Meleady, C

“…In the process, the official mind became subject to several contexts, the most important of which were the religious, cultural, and educational background of the officials themselves; the significance of India as the location where the most intimate relationships with Muslims were built; and the influence of native Muslim voices, who in some cases won the ear of their British masters and helped shape colonial policy.</p> <p>The reality of colonial governance drove a process whereby, from the rural hinterlands of the Punjab to the urban sophistication of Cairo, British officials became arbiters of Islam. …”

Beyond racism in Mister Johnson : Joyce Cary's love for the colonized Nigerian, and critique of the British empire. by Ong, Herrick Wee Siong.

“…Mister Johnson had been one of the treasured novels of the English imperial literary canon, and was highly recommended as a text for Achebe’s class at college, to which his classmate “told an astounded teacher point-blank that the only moment he had enjoyed in the entire book was when the Nigerian hero, Johnson, was shot to death by his British master, Mr Rudbeck” (Home and Exile 22). Achebe’s call for justice, in effect, succeeded. …”
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