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Empire calling : administering colonial Australasia and India / edited by Ralph Crane, Anna Johnston and C. Vijayasree

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Administering colonial Australasia and India
Published
Bengaluru : Foundation Books, 2013.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 176 pages)
Additional Creators
Crane, Ralph J., 1957-, Johnston, Anna, 1972-, and Vijayasree, C. (Changanti), 1953-2012
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Contents
Introduction : administering colonial spaces in Australasia and India / Ralph Crane and Anna Johnston -- pt. 1. Australasia and its diaspora -- 1. Benevolent empire? : Protecting indigenous peoples in British Australasia / Allan Lester -- 2. Population control : A.O. Neville's anxious administration / Rebecca Dorgelo -- 3. "At home" on a mission station and in a female factory : imagining Mary Hutchinson / Lucy Frost -- 4. "Dead empires whisper wisdom" : Alfred Domett and the postcolonial conscience / Mark Williams -- 5. "Operation unique" : administering Pitcairn Island in the twenty-first century / Lisa Fletcher -- pt. 2. India and its diaspora -- 6. Indentifying Sher Mohamad : `a good citizen' / Margaret Allen -- 7. Administering domestic space : Flora Annie Steel's The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook / Ralph Crane and Anna Johnston -- 8. The native element in the steel frame : Indian ICS Officers' relationship with British colleagues / Meenakshi Sharma -- 9. The production of colonial knowledge and the role of native intellectuals : the case of Kavali Borraiah / C. Vijayasree -- 10. Administering the literary empire : Edmund Gosse, Toru Dutt, and Sarojini Naidu / Jane Stafford.
Summary
The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men and women who served the British Empire in Australasia and India, and those who were subject to their administration. As these essays demonstrate, administrative arrangements involve complex cross-cultural relationships in colonial spaces, often through radically unequal and racially based power relations. Colonial administration involves diverse domains of practice -- the Civil Service, schools and universities, missions, domestic realms, justice systems -- and many forms of activities, including managing and organising; financing and accounting; monitoring and measuring; ordering and supplying; writing and implementing policies. In the two parts of this book, the authors -- from India, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain -- examine the ways colonial administrations accumulated and managed information and knowledge about the places and peoples under their jurisdiction. The administration of colonial spaces was neither a simple nor a unilinear project, and the essays in this book will contribute to key debates about imperial history. This book will appeal to readers from a variety of disciplines interested in the cultural history of the British Empire, including those working in the areas of literary, historical, postcolonial, and gender studies.
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ISBN
9789382264798 (electronic bk.)
9382264795 (electronic bk.)
9789382264767
9382264760
Note
"The essays had their genesis in an interdisciplinary conference held at Osmania University, Hyderabad, in 2007, which was jointly convened by the University of Tasmania's Centre for Colonialism and Its Aftermath and School of English, Journalism, and European Languages, and the Department of English at Osmania University."--Page vii
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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