Question: The eight part British television series "Rhodes" is based on the life of a man who was Prime Minister of what then-British colony?

Context articles: Human Planet
Top Trumps (TV series)
Humphrey Appleby
Unnatural Histories
Cecil Rhodes
The Victorian Kitchen Garden
Rhodes (TV series)
Downing Street Press Secretary
Sriniwaspuri
Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister

Human Planet is an 8-part British television documentary series.
 It is produced by the BBC with co-production from Discovery and BBC Worldwide.
 It describes the human species and its relationship with the natural world by showing the remarkable ways humans have adapted to life in every environment on Earth.
Top Trumps is a 10-part British television series based on the famous card game.
 It aired on Channel 5 in 2008.
 It was produced by Lion Television and presented by Robert Llewellyn and Ashley Hames.
Sir Humphrey Appleby, GCB, KBE, MVO, MA (Oxon), is a fictional character from the British television series "Yes Minister" and "Yes Prime Minister".
 He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of "Yes, Prime Minister".
 In "Yes Minister", he is the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Administrative Affairs (a fictional department of the British government).
 In the last episode of "Yes Minister", "Party Games", he becomes Cabinet Secretary, the most powerful position in the service and one he retains during "Yes, Prime Minister".
 Hawthorne's portrayal won the BAFTA Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance four times: 1981, 1982, 1986 and 1987.
Unnatural Histories is a 3-part British television documentary series produced by the BBC and BBC Natural History Unit.
 It takes a new look at three of the world's most iconic wildernesses; the Serengeti, Yellowstone National Park and the Amazon and discovers that far from being wild and untouched, each has been shaped over time by man.
 It was first broadcast on BBC Four 9–23 June 2011.
Cecil John Rhodes PC (5 July 1853 – 26 March 1902) was a British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South Africa, who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
 An ardent believer in British imperialism, Rhodes and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African territory of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe and Zambia), which the company named after him in 1895.
 South Africa's Rhodes University is also named after him.
 Rhodes set up the provisions of the Rhodes Scholarship, which is funded by his estate, and put much effort towards his vision of a Cape to Cairo Railway through British territory.
The Victorian Kitchen Garden is a 13-part British television series produced in 1987 by Keith Sheather for BBC2, based on an idea by Jennifer Davies who later became Associate Producer.
 It recreated a kitchen garden of the Victorian era at Leverton, Berkshire (near Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire).
 The presenter was the horticultural lecturer, Peter Thoday, the master gardener was Harry Dodson and the director was Keith Sheather.
Rhodes is an eight part British television drama series about the life of Cecil Rhodes, a 19th century British adventurer, empire-builder and politician.
 It starred Martin Shaw as the controversial figure, and was written by Antony Thomas.
 "Rhodes" received its British television debut on 15 September 1996, and concluded on 3 November.
 It was produced by Scott Meek and Charles Salmon, and directed by David Drury.
The Downing Street Press Secretary is an advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on news media and how to manage the image of the British government to the press.
 The position is part of the Prime Minister's Office and involves using information on what is happening in the UK and around the world, to decide on how the Prime Minister should present his or her reaction to the media.
 The incumbent also advises on how to handle news stories and other information which could affect the current Prime Minister or the Ministry.
Sriniwaspuri (Hindi: श्रीनिवासपुरी ) is a small Colony located in the southern part of Delhi, India.
 This Colony has mainly two sub-colonies - a government colony and a private colony.
 The government colony has Type-I and Type-II flats and few type 3 flats above i block market under General Pool Residential Accommodation of Central Government maintained by CPWD, and residents here are employees of various Central and attached government offices and their family members.
 The private colony was initially developed as J.J.Colony Sriniwaspuri.
 The original residents of this JJ Colony had been residing at Bela Road Jhuggi Basti near Rajghat and were Rajasthani and Punjabi/Multani/Sindhi/Janghi.
 Being poor, they had been working in and around the Purani Delhi area, the Yamuna area, etc.
 Most of them were labourers, masons, etc.
 In 1961, due to a fire accident this Juggi Basti had burnt.
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 Jawahar Lal Nehru, then the Prime Minister of India, allotted 80 Sq.Yds Plots with a loan of Rs.1000 to every family to build homes.
 First, 94 Plots in J Block were allotted to Rajasthani families, and Blocks K, L, M, N and O were allotted to the remaining people.
 Punjabi/Multani/Sindhi/Jhangi people were largest at that time too.
 Therefore, it is clear that most of the original residents of Sriniwaspuri residing in Blocks J, K, L, M, N, and O have been residing in Sriniwaspuri since 1961, and they may have been residing in Delhi since 1951 or earlier.
 Thereafter, local people and other people came in this Colony and encroached upon the land, resulting in the more recent P, Q, R, S, and T blocks.
 The difference may be seen easily that on one hand J.J. Colony having Blocks J, K, L, M, N, and O has well planned roads and buildings, whereas Blocks P, Q, R, S, and T are congested.
 This part is also known as the private colony wxtension.
 The private colony extension of Sriniwaspuri grapples with basic issues such as water supply, electricity, and encroachment.
 This part of Sriniwaspuri has many unregulated businesses such as provisional stores, dairies, and confectionery shops.
 Over the years, the place has commercialised so much that many residents have started leaving the place.
The Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister is a senior official in the British Civil Service who acts as Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
 The holder of this office is traditionally the head of the Prime Minister's Office.
 In the Civil Service, the role is currently graded as a Director-General.
 To date, no woman has ever occupied the office.
 In fiction, the character of Bernard Woolley in the television series "Yes, Prime Minister", occupied this post.