Colonial administrators 1914-45

Question 1

Harry Haig (attitudes and behaviour)

Answer 1

attitudes: a lifelong colonial administrator
favoured Anglo-Indian partnership
behaviours: opponent of Ghandi’s campaign, said Ghandi was a “menace”

Question 2

Lord Linlithgow (attitudes and behaviours)

Answer 2

attitudes: Promoted enfranchisement of Indians.
in GOIA (1935), he wanted a “more responsible” India

Behaviours:
Suppressed Indian nationalism during CD
Blamed for lack of economic growth

Question 3

Sir Philip Mitchell (attitudes and behaviours)

Answer 3

Attitudes: believed in looking after both indigenous people as well as white people
behaviours: served in Tanganyika as sec of native affairs
fulfilled trusteeship principle in Uganda, 1935

Question 4

Sir Andrew Cohen

Answer 4

attitudes: Had sympathy for oppressed African people and understood decolonisation

behaviours: cultivated contacts with African Nationalists
appointed sec of state for colonial office

Question 5

Roles of Colonial Administrators

Answer 5

Keep control of imperial territories
keep imperial territories profitable