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Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this book, a study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India, focuses on the soldiers' relationships with the faqir holy men who protected them and the British officers they served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European sources, the book uses the biographies of Muslim holy men and their military followers to recreate the extraordinary encounter between a barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals, drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion while at the same time attempting to control and suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to light the existence of a distinct 'barracks Islam' and shows its importance to the cultural no less than the military history of colonial India.

Originally published in 1929, this book was written to provide a historical summary of the way in which Britain's 'tropical African Empire' came into existence. Intended for the use of people in the Colonial Service, the text focuses mainly on discussing British interests in West and East Africa, although there are shorter sections on the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and African history more generally. A bibliography, statistical summary and maps of various regions are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on African history and British colonial history.

本書旨在考察英國殖民地公職機構的歷史。英國研究殖民地公職機構史的專家一般把1837年作為“殖民地公職機構”的開始，因為這一年英國首次印發了《殖民地規章》(Colonial Regulations)，為殖民地公職人員提供了關於工作職責、待遇、紀律等方面的指南。英國的殖民事務管理結構是比較複雜的，不同類型的殖民地在英國本土屬�不同的政府部門主管，這個概念有廣義的和狹義的之分：狹義上的殖民地公職機構是指