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Kalimpong kids : the New Zealand story, in pictures / Jane McCabe.
Penn Museum Library DU422.5 .M33 2020
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCabe, Jane, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglo-Indians--New Zealand--History--20th century.
- Anglo-Indians.
- Anglo-Indians--New Zealand--Pictorial works.
- Immigrants--New Zealand--Pictorial works.
- Immigrants.
- Plantation owners--Family relationships--India--History--20th century.
- Plantation owners.
- Tea plantations--Social aspects--India--History--20th century.
- Tea plantations.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--India--History--20th century.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- Emigration and immigration.
- History.
- Race relations.
- Social aspects.
- Families.
- India--Race relations--History--20th century.
- India.
- Kālimpong (India)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Kālimpong (India).
- New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- New Zealand.
- India--Kālimpong.
- Genre:
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 139 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- In the early 20th century, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an organised immigration scheme from Kalimpong, in the Darjeeling district of India. They were the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women, and were placed as workers with New Zealand families from the Far North to Southland. Their settlement in New Zealand was the initiative of a Scottish Presbyterian missionary, the Rev Dr John Anderson Graham, who aimed to 'rescue' and provide a home and an education for children whose opportunities would have been limited in the country of their birth. Jane McCabe is the granddaughter of Lorna Peters, who arrived with a group from Kalimpong in 1921. Jane is one of many hundreds of descendants now spread throughout New Zealand. Most grew up with little or no knowledge of their parent's Indian heritage. The story of interracial relationships, institutionalisation - and the sense of abandonment that often resulted - was rarely spoken of. But since the 1980s increasing numbers have been researching their hidden histories. In the process, extraordinary personal stories and many fabulous photographs have come to light. Jane McCabe here tells this compelling and little-known New Zealand story, in pictures.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. INTRODUCTION
- My Story
- The Kalimpong Scheme
- Uncovering the Past
- The Photographs
- 2. TEA PLANTATIONS, NORTHEAST INDIA
- The Planters
- The Mothers
- Hidden Families
- Growing Up on the Plantation
- 3. DR GRAHAM's HOMES KALIMPONG
- Kalimpong
- Establishing the Homes
- Graham's Grand Scheme
- Life in the Cottages
- Beyond the Gates
- The Reach of the Homes
- 4. EMIGRATION
- An Organised Scheme
- Destination Dunedin
- War, Marriage and Settlement
- The Shift North
- 5. A NEW ZEALAND COMMUNITY
- Keeping Siblings Together
- Tea Planters in New Zealand
- John Graham's New Zealand Tour, 1937
- 1938: The Final Group
- 6. ACROSS BORDERS
- Serving Again: World War Two
- The Impact of Indian Independence
- Parallel Lives
- Housemothers: An Enduring Presence
- 7. TWILIGHT YEARS
- Leaving the Past Behind
- Planters' Bequests
- Retirement
- 8. THE NEXT GENERATION
- Dr Graham's Homes in the 21st Century
- A Community Revived
- The Journey Continues.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781988592367
- 1988592364
- OCLC:
- 1139391963
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