Negotiating Compensation for Indians with Idi Amin's Government
Throughout the 19th century and up to the First World War, India was the hub of the expanding British Empire. India had the experience and provided the structural administrative model for ruling over other British tropical conquests. Until the colonial office and the colonial service came to be established, the governance of Kenya and Uganda were guided as much from Calcutta as from Whitehall. There were definite periods of intensified Indian migration to Africa, the first following the construction of the railway. The second phase came during the inter war years and a third spurt took place after the Second World War. The cumulative outcome was that there