Indian reactions to the Anglo-Indian expedition against emperor tewodros of Ethiopia: the 'Magdala Campaign' of 1867-8

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Title:	Indian reactions to the Anglo-Indian expedition against emperor tewodros of Ethiopia: the 'Magdala Campaign' of 1867-8
Author:	Pankhurst, Richard
Year:	1981
Periodical:	Africa: rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione
Volume:	36
Issue:	3-4
Pages:	390-418
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Ethiopia United Kingdom
Subjects:	colonial conquest war 1860-1869
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/45238397
Abstract:	India's participation in the British expedition against Emperor Téwodros created considerable excitement in the sub-continent. Though the expedition was warmly welcomed in Anglo-Indian, and also in certain princely circles, the former were often critical of the Government's decision to saddle India with part of the cost. Emerging Indian nationalist were even more incensed at the burden placed en hungry India, and, increasingly disillusioned by the behaviour of the British Parliament in which they were not represented, began to question the very basis of the expedition, and developed a well-reasoned critique of Sir Robert Napier's to them entirely unjustified assault on Magdala after the re-lease of the captives. Opposition to British policy was not insignificant in the wider perspective of the Indian nationalists' growing disenchantment with and rejection of British hegemony, and thus played its part in the evolution of dynamic Indian nationalism which was to find expression in the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885. Notes, sum. in French and Italian.