PositiveThe New Statesman (UK)[Sanghera] offers rich and thoughtful engagements with bodies of scholarly work grafted on to travelogues based on his reporting trips to Nigeria, Mauritius, Barbados, New Delhi and beyond ... However, for a book about empire, it is odd that Sanghera’s only real discussion of decolonisation as such is to dismiss it rather glibly ... Sanghera’s book admirably marches us into the weeds of peer-reviewed scholarly work. His book is 246 pages of text with 176 pages of notes and bibliography. But amid all the \"complexity\" and \"contradiction\", one feels the absence of what Robin DG Kelley has called the \"freedom dreams\" of moments of decolonisation. The balance sheet is rejected, but we are not given a glimpse of the world that could exist beyond it.
