Michael Silvestri is professor of History at Clemson University. He is the author of Ireland and India: nationalism, empire and memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and Policing 'Bengali Terrorism' in India and the world: imperial intelligence and revolutionary nationalism, 1905-1939 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and a co-author of Britain since 1688: a nation in the world (Routledge, 2014).