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Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial Families, Interrupted

Autor Dr Jane McCabe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2018
This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.WINNER OF THE IAN WARDS PRIZE 2018By the early 20th century, the ideology of racial distance predominated in British India. This simultaneously threw a spotlight on the 'Anglo-Indian problem' and sent intimate relationships between British colonials and Indian women into the shadows of history. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters in an institution in Kalimpong - in the foothills of the Himalayas - before permanently resettling them far from their maternal homeland as workers in New Zealand. Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the 'Homes' in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative -- one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story. This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families -- schemes that relied on future forgetting.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350090996
ISBN-10: 1350090999
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 22 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

The first study to address the family impact of young British men transgressing racial boundaries in the post-1857 rebellion climate of British India

Notă biografică

Jane McCabe is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History and Art History, at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Jane teaches papers on Modern India, Twentieth Century Migration to New Zealand, and Encounters in Global History.

Cuprins

1. Introduction: The Origin NarrativeSection 1: India, Separations2. Assam Tea Plantation Families3. St Andrew's Colonial HomesSection 2: New Zealand, Resettlement4. 1910s: Pathway to a Settler Colony5. 1920s: Working the Permit System6. 1930s: Decline and DiscontinuanceSection 3: Transnational Families7. Independence8. Reunion9. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

This is a well researched and moving account of the transnational trajectories of families that were made and dispersed by the contingencies of the British Empire and will be of use to scholars of twentieth- century India and New Zealand as well as those interested in race, childhood, migration, missions, genealogical methodologies and oral history.
McCabe's remarkable work tells us about the meanings of silence and talking, about frightening and exhilarating journeys across land and sea and lifeways, about the hopes and fears joining northeastern India to Scotland and New Zealand, and to the extraordinary courage of children who made and re-made their lives in an early 20th-century world uneasy with their very existence. This book changes the lives of those who read it.
From a tiny archive in the foothills of northeast India to the bungalows of British tea planters to the shores of New Zealand and beyond, this remarkable study shows us the scale and drama of empire through transnational family histories. We see the soft power of empire embedded in the hardware of a racialized colonial labor economy; the pain and poignancy of white settlement; and above all, the quiet dignity of a grandmother's story. All told with a combination of rigor and intimacy that makes the stakes of critical imperial history clear to academics and general readers alike.