![]() ![]() Abandoning earlier thoughts of India, Anderson became the most brilliant of Kahin’s graduate students on Indonesian politics, and his eventual successor at Cornell. This came during the department’s heyday as the centre for George Kahin’s model of exploring new south-east Asian nationalisms. ![]() The following year, he escaped this background, through an invitation to become a teaching assistant in the department of government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He wrote: “Though I was educated in England from the age of 11, it was difficult to imagine myself English.” He gained a first in classics at King’s College, Cambridge, but found himself politicised on the side of the underdog in a demonstration by chiefly south Asian students against Britain’s 1956 invasion of Suez. His father served in the Chinese Maritime Customs service, and was descended from Scottish Andersons and Irish O’Gormans, one of whom, Richard O’Gorman, who had taken part in the “Young Irelander” rebellion of 1848, provided Benedict’s middle names. Son of Veronica (nee Bigham) and Shaemas Anderson, he was born in Kunming, China. ![]()
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