Tanjil Rashid

The statue-topplers are obsessed with white men and white history

Black and Asian luminaries like Rammohan Roy are always ignored in favour of Colston, Churchill and Rhodes

Bristol’s monument to radical scholar Raja Rammohan Roy, who offered a vision of emancipation to challenge and even influence Europe’s. Image credit: Andrew Michael / Education Images / Universal Images Group / Getty Images
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