The Dissident Britain

Priya Khandelwal: I wanted to draw out in my book that Britain's people are not entirely assimilable to the myth of official Britain. Cambridge is enormously tied up with the British establishment and the British state and old money, she says. But equally, these are places that have produced wonderful books, important knowledge, important kinds of intellectual contributions," writes Khandellwal. "Our task is to address ourselves to these dissident forces and dissident traditions"