The limits of British colonial control in South Asia : spaces of disorder in the Indian Ocean region
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The limits of British colonial control in South Asia : spaces of disorder in the Indian Ocean region
(Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia, 50)
Routledge, 2012
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published in 2009
"First issued in paperback 2012"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on 'subaltern' groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms, the book focuses on the movement of people of the lower orders that imperial ventures generated.
Challenging the assumed stability of colonial rule, the social spaces featured are those that threatened the racial, class and moral order instituted by British colonial states. By elaborating on the colonial state's strategies to control perceived 'disorder' and the modes of resistance and subversion that subaltern subjects used to challenge state control, a picture of British Empire as an ultimately precarious, shifting and unruly formation is presented, which is quite distinct from its self-projected image as an orderly entity.
Thoroughly researched and innovative in its approach, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars of Asian, British imperial/colonial, transnational and international history.
Table of Contents
Introduction Ashwini Tambe and Harald Fischer-Tine Part I. Subaltern Mobility and the Problem of Control and Containment 1. Networks of Subordination and Networks of the Subordinated: The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947) Ravi Ahuja 2. Passport, Ticket, and India Rubber-stamp: `The Problem of the Pauper Pilgrim' in Colonial India (c.1882-1925) Radhika Singha 3. 'Heshima' - British War Time Propaganda to East African Troops in Ceylon, (1943-45)Katrin Bromber Part II. Subalternity, Race and the Transgression of Moral Boundaries 4. Discourses of Exclusion and the 'Convict Stain' in the Indian Ocean (c. 1800-1850) Clare Anderson 5. Flotsam and Jetsam of the Empire? European Seamen and Spaces of Disease and Disorder in mid-Nineteenth Century Calcutta Harald Fischer-Tine 6. Degenerate Whites and their Spaces of Disorder: Disciplining Racial and class Ambiguities in Colonial Calcutta, (c. 1880 - 1930) Satoshi Mizutani 7. Hierarchies of Subalternity: Managed Stratification in Bombay's Brothels, 1914 -1930 Ashwini Tambe
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