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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.
Contents
Introduction
Administering Colonial Spaces in Australasia and India
Part 1: Australasia and Its Diaspora
1. Benevolent Empire?
Protecting Indigenous Peoples in British Australasia
2. Population Control
A.O. Neville’s Anxious Administration
3. “At home” on a Mission Station and in a Female Factory
Imagining Mary Hutchinson
4. “Dead Empires Whisper Wisdom”
Alfred Domett and the Postcolonial Conscience
5. “Operation Unique”
Administering Pitcairn Island in the Twenty-First Century
Part 2: India and Its Diaspora
6. Identifying Sher Mohamad
‘a good citizen’
7. Administering Domestic Space
Flora Annie Steel’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
8. The Native Element in the Steel Frame
Indian ICS Officers’ Relationship with British Colleagues
9. The Production of Colonial Knowledge and the Role of Native Intellectuals
The Case of Kavali Borraiah
10. Administering the Literary Empire
Edmund Gosse, Toru Dutt, and Sarojini Naidu
Notes on Contributors
ISBN -9789382264767
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Pages : 194
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