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255 “abyss,” 13, 32, 34, 115, 116, 123, 125, 126, 223n7, 224n11. See also darkest London; London, inner, East End; slums Adshead, S. D., 135 Africa, 6, 7, 13, 19, 21, 23, 29, 69, 87, 88, 89, 113, 127, 131, 135, 143, 149, 150, 168, 191, 193, 198, 221n11, 227n7, 232n22, 233n1. See also Cairo; Lusaka; Nairobi; South Africa Agra, 74 Ali, Monica, 202 Aligarh, 27 Ali G Show, 203 All the Year Round, 65 Almayer’s Folly (Conrad), 33–34, 84–114 passim, 144, 172; and Buitenzorg, 111–13; and clerks, 33, 85, 92, 94, 95, 107, 108; domestic complaint , discourse of, 92, 96, 111; and fiction of suburbia, 90–92, 94, 111; and homelessness, 96–99; and lower middle class, 88, 92, 94, 95; and modernism, 86, 95, 107–8, 111, 220n5; and ressentiment, 99–100, 107, 109; and speculative building, 84–85, 100–102 Amiel, Henri-Frédéric, 95 Andaman Islands, 71–72, 73–74, 218n18 Anderson, Benedict, 154–55 Anderson, G. L., 94 Anglo-Indians, 12, 217n6, 219n22; degeneracy of, 76, 77–78, 83; nostalgia of, 158–59; ressentiment of, 159–64, 168–70, 185, 187–88; and suburbs, 17–19, 27, 61, 70, 74–78, 149–51, 153–64, 172, 177–78, 180–81, 187–88, 218n15. See also India Anthropological Report on a London Suburb (Duff), 174–75, 177, 186 apartheid, 198, 214n23 Arata, Stephen, 14, 219n22 Archer, John, 17, 64, 111–12 Architect, 5, 29 Asia, 4, 21, 191. See also Burmese Days; Ceylon; Dutch East Indies; India; Orwell, George, and Burma Asquith, Herbert Henry, 117 Auckland, 77, 219n23 Auden, W. H., 174 Australia, 6, 18, 23, 24, 26, 27, 104, 135, 152, 213n16, 214n27 Bachelard, Gaston, 150 Baker, Herbert, 135 Baldwin, Stanley, 230n2 Ball, John Clement, 204 Balzac, Honoré de, 91 Bankipore, 153, 226n6 Barrie, J. M., 91 Barthes, Roland, 41 Batavia (Jakarta), 17, 111–13, 222n25 Baucom, Ian, 16 Baudelaire, Charles, 204 Beauman, Nicola, 133 Bedford Park Gazette, 25 Belfast, 4, 213n16 Bellamy, Edward, 133 Bend It like Beckham, 203 Bengal, 17, 151 Benjamin, Walter, 42, 67, 78, 219n24 Bennett, Arnold, 10, 91, 215n4 Berkshire, 20, 216n7 Berlin Congo Conference, 87 Bernstein, Michael André, 109, 162 Besant, Walter, 25, 216n2 Betjeman, John, 32, 222n17; “Slough,” 176, 195, 230n3 Bhabha, Homi, 178, 227n9 Birmingham, 4, 211n2, 225n17 INDEX 256 Index Blackwood’s, 116, 169 Blake, Charles Henry, 19 BLAST, 10 Boer War: and degeneracy, 6, 34, 115–17, 118, 120, 131, 135, 136; Orwell on, 185, 186; and suburbs, 26–27, 28, 29, 53, 115–17, 118, 120, 131, 135, 136 Bombay, 17 Bongie, Chris, 102 Booth, Charles, 13, 25, 46, 75, 80, 92 Booth, Gen. William, 13, 22, 65, 175 Borneo, 84, 85, 87, 88, 220n1. See also Malay Archipelago Bourdieu, Pierre, 187 Briggs, Asa, 4 Briggs, R. A., 70–71 Britain. See Britishness; colonization of Britain; England British Broadcasting Corporation, 196, 203 British East India Company, 17, 18, 19, 26; suburbs of, 17–18, 213nn17–18, 226n6 British Empire Exhibition, 25–26, 214n25 British Nationality Act, 201 Britishness, 10, 210; and Englishness, 16 Brooke, James, 103 Buchan, John, Thirty-Nine Steps, 218n15 Buckinghamshire, 32, 216n7 Buddha of Suburbia (Kureishi), 10, 35, 202–10; racial anti-essentialism of, 35, 202–3, 205–7; suburban identity racialized in, 204, 206–10; suburbs and migration in, 204–5 Builder, 13 building: cycles, 7, 19–21, 85, 150, 173, 195, 214n21; leases, 43, 96–97, 186; societies, 186; speculative, 6, 48, 84, 85, 100–102, 116, 123 Building News, 13, 46, 54 Buitenzorg, 111–13, 222n25 Bullock, Shan, 10, 28, 94, 99, 101–2, 107 bungalow, 6, 14, 27, 70–71, 113, 114, 149, 150, 165, 168, 218n16 Burke, Andrew, 123 Burmese Days (Orwell), 149–50, 169–73; and Anglo-Indians, 154, 158–59, 162, 169–70, 188; and colonizer’s powerlessness, 177, 178; and Coming Up for Air, 169, 171–73; and ressentiment , 162, 169–70, 185, 187; and suburbanization of Burma, 149–50, 169–70, 172 Burnett, John, 10 Burton, Antoinette, 16 Cadbury, George, 225n17 Cairo, 196, 233n29 Calcutta, 17, 18, 19, 76, 77, 149, 151, 226n4 Carr, Jonathan, 25 Cary, Joyce, 168, 229n20 Cassell’s Family Magazine, 91 Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 149 Chadwick, Edwin, 123 Chamberlain, Joseph, 24, 125 Cheltenham, 18 Chesterton, G. K. and Cecil, 117 Chowringhee, 17, 18 Churchill, Winston, 118 cities, colonial, 6, 34, 88, 150, 152, 220n9, 226n4, 228n13. See also names of individual cities civil station, 34, 150, 152, 155, 165. See also hill station...