On the whole, Other People's Struggles is valuable and generative in the questions it raises about the contested politics of involving (often far more privileged) outsiders in social movements.
Nicholas Owen is Praelector in Politics at The Queen's College, Oxford, and Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The British Left and India: Metropolitan Anti-Imperialism, 1885 - 1947 (Oxford, 2007) and articles in Past & Present, Journal of Modern History, Historical Journal, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History,
Twentieth Century British History and many edited collections.