Hate mail was piling up. “Abdul saw my concern and gave me a questioning look. “‘Just like the fanatics you escaped from, Abdul!’”Professor Gilley knew that there would be a mixed reaction to his essay, The Case for Colonialism, although not perhaps one of such a strength and ferocity. In his submission to the journal Third World Quarterly, the Portland State University academic had argued that it was “time to question the orthodoxy” that colonialism was bad. Pointing to examples where the years…

Source: The Times December 04, 2017 00:00 UTC