Race, tea and colonial resettlement : imperial families, interrupted

Author/Creator:

McCabe, Jane, author

Publication/Creation:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Race, tea and colonial resettlement : imperial families, interrupted / Jane McCabe

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Racially mixed people--India--History--20th century
Anglo-Indians--History--20th century
Plantation owners--Family relationships--India--History--20th century
Tea plantations--Social aspects--India--History--20th century
Miscegenation--India--History--20th century
Imperialism--Social aspects--India--History--20th century
Land settlement--New Zealand--History--20th century
India--Race relations--History--20th century
Kālimpong (India)--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
New Zealand--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Family, race and narrative -- Section I. India : separations. Tea plantation families of northeast India -- St Andrew's colonial homes -- Section II. New Zealand : settlement. 1910s : pathway to a settler colony -- 1920s : working the permit system -- 1930s : decline and discontinuance -- Section III. Transnational families. Independence -- Recovering Kalimpong -- Conclusion : a transcultural challenge.

Summary:

"A 20th-century saga of interracial Anglo-Indian tea dynasties prised apart and scattered as far away as New Zealand"--Provided by publisher.
"In the early 20th century, the 'problem' of interracial relations between British colonials and natives was a hotly debated topic in British India. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women 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"--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvii, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936629498802486

ISBN:

9781474299503
1474299504

OCLC Number:

957139234

Other Identifiers:

Unspecified: 40027157097

Barcode:

010001044038