Mobile citizens : French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954 / Natasha Pairaudeau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pairaudeau, Natasha, author.

Series:

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 129.

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph series ; no. 129

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East Indians--Indochina--History.

East Indians.

East Indians--Indochina--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

History.

Indochina--History--19th century.

Indochina.

Indochina--History--20th century.

Indians.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Nias Press, 2016.

Summary:

First in-depth study of the Indian presence in French Indochina When France laid claim to the territories which became French Indochina, its beleaguered trading posts on the east coast of India gained a new purpose, sending Indians to help secure and administer its newest possessions and to assist in their commercial expansion. The migrants were among those peoples of France's overseas empire who gained the rights of French citizens following the French Revolution. This volume explores the consequences of their arrival in Indochina just as France was testing a new approach to its colonised peoples, an approach less enamoured with the idea of colonial citizenship and more racially ordered. This book offers an analysis of the fate of Republican ideals as they travelled between different parts of the French Empire and raised contentious issues of citizenship which engaged Indians, French authorities, and Vietnamese reformers in debate. It considers too the distinctive French colonial social order that was shaped in the process. A lively story, it is at the same time an important addition to scholarship on the French empire, on colonial society in Vietnam specifically, and on migration to Southeast Asia. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

2 Shaping legal status in India and Indochina 34

3 At work in Indochina: Indian French citizens and Tamil spheres of activity 71

4 The Indian vote in Cochinchina 119

5 Colonial citizenship and contractual privileges 153

6 Vietnamese engagement with Indian migrants 191

7 Raising the Indian public profile 231

8 Diasporic dilemmas 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

8776941582

9788776941581

9788776941598

8776941590

OCLC:

946689395