Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement : Imperial Families, Interrupted / Jane McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Jane, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Family, Race and Narrative 1

Section I India - Separations

2 Tea Plantation Families of Northeast India 17

3 St Andrew's Colonial Homes 44

Section II New Zealand - Settlement

4 1910s: Pathway to a Settler Colony 71

5 1920s: Working the Permit System 97

6 1930s: Decline and Discontinuance 118

Section III Transnational Families

7 Independence 145

8 Recovering Kalimpong 167.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102552

ISBN:

9781474299503

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access