Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia

Tambe, Ashwini [u.a.] (Hrsg.):
The limits of British colonial control in South Asia : spaces of disorder in the Indian Ocean region / edited by Ashwini Tambe and Harald Fischer-Tiné. - London : Routledge, 2009. - viii, 216 S. - (Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 50)
ISBN 978-0-415-45257-1 / 0-415-45257-0
£ 75,00
DDC: 325.410954

Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
List of contributors. ix
Ashwini Tambe and Harald Fischer-Tiné: Introduction. 1
PART I. SUBALTERN MOBILITY AND THE PROBLEM OF CONTROL AND CONTAINMENT. 11
    1. Ravi Ahuja: Networks of Subordination and Networks of the Subordinated: The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947). 13
    2. Radhika Singha: Passport, Ticket, and India Rubber-stamp: 'The Problem of the Pauper Pilgrim' in Colonial India (c.1882-1925). 49
    3. Katrin Bromber: 'Heshima' – British War Time Propaganda to East African Troops in Ceylon, (1943-45). 84
PART II. SUBALTERNITY, RACE AND THE TRANSGRESSION OF MORAL BOUNDARIES. 103
    4. Clare Anderson: Discourses of Exclusion and the 'Convict Stain' in the Indian Ocean (c. 1800-1850). 105
    5. Harald Fischer-Tiné: Flotsam and Jetsam of the Empire? European Seamen and Spaces of Disease and Disorder in mid-Nineteenth Century Calcutta. 121
    6. Satoshi Mizutani: Degenerate Whites and their Spaces of Disorder: Disciplining Racial and class Ambiguities in Colonial Calcutta, (c. 1880 - 1930). 155
    7. Ashwini Tambe: Hierarchies of Subalternity: Managed Stratification in Bombay's Brothels, 1914 -1930. 192
Index. 208.

Herausgeber

ASHWINI TAMBE is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in South Asia, colonial history and globalization, and specifically the history of the sex trade in colonial Bombay. Faculty profile.
HARALD FISCHER-TINÉ is Professor of History at Jacobs University, Bremen. He holds a PhD in South Asian History from Heidelberg University (2000) and has published extensively on the social and cultural history of the British Raj and varieties of Hindu reform and Hindu nationalism in 19th and 20th century India. Alte Profilseite. Vgl. auch die neue Profilseite.

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Rückschau
Von der Herausgeberin Ashwini Tambe haben wir in Indologica bereits das folgende Werk erfaßt:
[06.06.2009] Tambe, Ashwini: Codes of Misconduct