This chapter describes the newspaper networks that sustained and influenced reporting of the subcontinent in London and how the editorial stance of individual papers coloured their coverage. The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an increased interchange of news and information between Fleet Street and the Indian press. The Fleet Street tapped a range of sources, within both India and Britain, in forming its coverage of the subcontinent. The Times was the most influential British newspaper on India, with the largest financial outlay and a host of specialist leader writers, including D. D. Braham, Valentine Chirol, J. W. Flanagan, Lovat Fraser and Edward Grigg. The Morning Post's foreign news coverage under Lord Glenesk reflected his predilection for aristocratie government and monarchy. Geoffrey Dawson's concern with empire and the Raj was constant and acute.

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. This book examines dialectics in modern epistemology and compares it with critical theory, not 'in order to' but 'because' the latter can offer innovative means of dialectical theorizing. In this way, critical theory has the potential to advance twenty-first-century epistemology. The book attempts to present and ground the argument that a retreat to de-theorization for the sake of the partiality of empiricism, as well as the postmodern approach. In order to avoid social and scientific instrumentality and pre-modern positions, the construction of scientific politics has to be criticized under the perspective of a political epistemology. Such an epistemology negates the determinism of the arguments of social structures and scientific systems, and replaces the postmodern with a dialectics of modernity that reaches all strata of scientific progress.

Mission medicine was made possible by European colonialism, and it inevitably shared some of its characteristics. In the case of the mission to the Bhils, C. S. Thompson distanced himself from the British-officered Mewar Bhil Corps (MBC) in the 1880s so as not to be associated with its punitive raids on the Bhils. In contrast to official colonial medicine, mission medicine sought to situate itself very strongly within non-European social and institutional milieus as a form of day-to-day practice. Christians were required to make use of the services of mission medical workers and accept their allopathic remedies. The mental transformation that the missionaries demanded was therefore secular only to a degree, for it also involved a radical restructuring of belief about the supernatural in the process of healing.

Chapter 7 enters a very different performance space, that of thestreet and the part that the ‘largely taken for granted world’ of walking played in the formation of adolescent masculinity. Working-class boys and young men enjoyed greater spatial freedoms than their female counterparts, but their occupation of street space was oft en depicted in very passive terms, as in cartoons from the late nineteenth century of scowling, slouching individuals, arms akimbo or hands in pockets, legs apart and a cigarette invariably drooping from the mouth. Assumptions of street ‘loitering’ ignored the dynamic nature of young people's relationships with neighbourhoods and how ‘hanging around’, gossiping and watching the world go by helped to construct male social identity in relation both to their peers and adult society. The role of place in mediating boys' entry into the world of adults is usually seen in terms of neighbourhood territory and gangs. This chapter explores how walking and place-based leisure routines helped to fashion the streets and districts in which working-class boys grew up into a ‘knowable’ landscape, a ‘practiced place’ whose meanings during adolescence deepened and extended into distinctive topographical identities, reinforced by habit, familiarity and the casual rhythms of daily life.

The concluding chapter draws together the findings of the research, briefly reviewing what the book has shown about leadership strategy between 1997 and 2010. The book argues that the ideological legacy of Thatcherism played a central role in framing and shaping these intraparty debates, and that an appreciation of this is vital for explaining the nature and limits of the Conservatives’ renewal under Cameron. As such, the evaluation of ‘Cameronism’ finds that this was essentially a project aimed at detoxifying the Conservative brand rather than undertaking a more far-reaching reappraisal of contemporary conservatism.

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in this book. The book includes the meaning and relevance of Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) measures to the range of actors that engage with the Committee and International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). It is clear that in particular, the international legal character of ICERD and its obligations need greater analysis and discussion. Although there are contestations and challenges, the contemporary meaning and reach of ICERD, as articulated by the Committee, is not fundamentally questioned by States parties. CERD will continue to offer a voice at the international level for victims of all forms of racial discrimination, which will drive more in-depth implementation of its standards.