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Amia Srinivasan · Under Rhodes: Rhodes Must Fall · LRB 30 March 2016

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No one at Oxford, or anywhere else in the UK, talked much about Cecil Rhodes before the protests began. Portraits and...

Vol. 38 No. 7 · 31 March 2016 Under Rhodes Amia Srinivasan Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 1486 words A t the ​ Rhodes Scholarship interview, candidates are often asked how they intend to 'fight the world's fight', a phrase inherited from the scholarship's founder, Cecil Rhodes. The exceeding ambition that has always been demanded of Rhodes scholars takes its cue from Rhodes's own imperial fantasies: 'Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule &h

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