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By Tabitha Morgan
On a sweltering day in July, 1878 the lads of the forty second Royal Highlanders -- the Black Watch -- waded ashore at Larnaca Bay to start the British career of Cyprus. this day, Britons on sunbeds colonize an analogous stretch of sand, the most recent viewers to an island which has lengthy held a unique position within the English mind's eye -- and a debatable position in British imperial ambitions. Drawing on principally unpublished fabric, Tabitha Morgan displays on why successive administrations failed, so catastrophically, to have interaction with their Cypriot matters, and the way social segregation, confusion approximately Cypriot identification and the negative quality of such a lot of directors all contributed to the bloody clash that led, eventually, to Cypriot independence in 1960. candy and sour Island explores for the 1st time the original bond among Britain and Cyprus and the complicated, occasionally annoying, dating among the 2 international locations which endures to the current day. commonly researched and lyrically written, this can be the definitive portrait of British colonial lifestyles at the Mediterranean island.
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Other plans, such as those for the development of a deep-water harbour at Famagusta, or a mountain railway connecting the villages of the Troodos region, were abandoned altogether. indb 22 2/16/2010 12:35:29 PM The Whitest of White Elephants 1882–90 23 Heavy port dues, fixed by the government in an attempt to raise revenues, discouraged ships from calling at the island and inhibited the development of trade. 14 The contrast between the optimism of the new arrivals, who hoped to establish a model administration that would become the pride of the Levant, and the cynicism expressed 16 years later is striking.
One would fancy oneself at Margate’. 29 Part of the attraction the hill station held for the colonists was its emptiness. indb 27 2/16/2010 12:35:31 PM 28 Sweet and Bitter Island that had to be improved, pacified or negotiated with. The rocky outcrop was an empty slate on which they could inscribe a self-contained colonial experience and enact a shared fantasy of how Cyprus ought to be. Government could be carried out at arm’s length, almost as an abstract exercise, without the uncomfortable compromises often required down on the plains, and free of contact with those educated urban Cypriots whose demands could complicate the business of effective colonial administration.
49 In the same spirit, in June 1883, Captain Scott-Stevenson, who was by then commissioner of the port of Kyrenia on the island’s northern coast, arranged for the re-interment of the remains of Sergeant McGaw, the officer from his regiment who had died on the march to Chiflik Pasha in August 1878. ScottStevenson had previously purchased a small plot of land for use as a cemetery, ‘shaded by olives and carob trees’. McGaw’s re-burial in Kyrenia was completed with full regimental honours, his coffin covered with a Union flag and transported on the shoulders of six Turkish military policeman or zaptiehs while Scott-Stevenson, dressed in the full ceremonial uniform of the ‘Black Watch’ followed behind.