Thank You Mr Crombie
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Thank You Mr Crombie

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Thank You Mr Crombie

About this book

Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels an enormous debt of gratitude to Mr Crombie, the UK Home Office official who fulfilled his dreams of settling in Britain. Having studied there in the 1960s before heading back to India under parental pressure, he later returned to London. Shiva Naipaul, doubting that Bose could become a writer, mocked him for reembracing the colonial lash--but Bose would prove him wrong.

This absorbing memoir shows how Britain has changed dramatically for the better since the '60s. Then, Indian food was shunned, not adored; landladies wouldn't rent Bose a room; white women would not have relationships, because they wanted white babies; and he suffered several assaults, fearing for his life.

In those early days, Bose could not imagine that the British would take such enormous strides towards multi-racial harmony. While this extraordinary transformation has reinforced his faith in the nation's capacity for change, Britain's complex, at times deeply shameful, imperial legacy must still be addressed. India has been proving its doubters wrong, and striving to come to terms with its tortured past. Can twenty-first-century Britain, too, grow once again, and earn the gratitude of future generations?

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. 1. A Letter of Thanks after 49 Years
  8. 2. Want Sons, Hate Dark Skins
  9. 3. How Scotland got my Parents Together
  10. 4. Mumbai’s Very Own Downton Abbey
  11. 5. Do It for England
  12. 6. Chained to the Colonial Legacy
  13. 7. Bengalis Imitating British Colonials
  14. 8. Bengal Only Knows How to Cry
  15. 9. The Baba–Ma Play on the Train to Kolkata
  16. 10. Instant Families and Ma’s Two Faces
  17. 11. Why the West Gets Caste Wrong
  18. 12. Not Upsetting the Travel Gods
  19. 13. America Overtakes Britain
  20. 14. Cricket, Israel and a New World
  21. 15. Our American Contradictions
  22. 16. To Britain with ÂŁ800 in My Underwear
  23. 17. The Brown Man with a Trustworthy Face
  24. 18. Toilets, Water and Bengalis
  25. 19. Mick the Coloured Irishman
  26. 20. The Sikh’s Futile Search for an English Girlfriend
  27. 21. Not Quite Magical London
  28. 22. Don’t Ring Us, We Will Ring You
  29. 23. Race, Culture, Religion and Class
  30. 24. Time Out and the England of my Dreams
  31. 25. England Gives, India Takes Away
  32. 26. Farewell to England
  33. 27. Bilayter Moho
  34. 28. Back for the Colonial Lash
  35. 29. Love and Hate in a Changing Britain
  36. 30. We Money Men See No Colour
  37. 31. A Fake Journalistic World or Just Playing Games?
  38. 32. The Lotus Amidst the Muck
  39. 33. The Universal Grief of Migration
  40. 34. Playing the White Man’s Game
  41. 35. The Unexpected Maxwell Legacy
  42. 36. How my Outsider Status helped me Explore the Secret World of Sports
  43. 37. I Won’t Talk in front of That Little Shit
  44. 38. The A, B,C, D Roads Cricket Murder
  45. 39. Thank Goodness for Citizens of Nowhere
  46. 40. Taking on a National Treasure
  47. 41. The Muslim from Rangoon’s Lessons in Religious Tolerance
  48. 42. How a Multiracial Stomach Leads to a Multiracial Heart
  49. 43. The Gulf Between Blacks and Whites when Dealing with a Racist
  50. 44. Speakers and the BBC
  51. 45. Tea with Cherie Blair and London 2012
  52. 46. Nelson Mandela Defines What Freedom Means
  53. 47. Upsetting the Churchill Lobby
  54. 48. British Moral Cakeism
  55. 49. Did Machiavelli Plagiarise Chanakya?
  56. 50. Orwell’s “Not Counting Niggers” is Still Relevant
  57. 51. How the British Raj Pioneered Identity Culture
  58. 52. My Collaborating Family
  59. 53. Who Are You?
  60. Notes
  61. Glossary
  62. Also by Mihir Bose
  63. Acknowledgements
  64. Back Cover