Bibliograph

Subaltern lives, biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920, Clare Anderson

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Subaltern lives, biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920, Clare Anderson

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Subaltern lives

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

794327681

Responsibility statement

Clare Anderson

Series statement

Critical perspectives on empireCambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Sub title

biographies of colonialism in the Indian Ocean world, 1790-1920

Summary

Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves, indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma, Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers fresh readings of the nature and significance of 'networked' Empire. She reveals the importance of penal transportation for colonial expansion and sheds new light on convict experiences of penal settlements and colonies, as well as the relationship between convictism, punishment and colonial labour regimes. The book also explores the nature of colonial society during this period and embeds subaltern biographies into key events like the abolition of slavery, the Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857. This is an important new perspective on British colonialism which also opens up new possibilities for the writing of history itself.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Subaltern lives: an introduction; 2. Dullah; 3. George Morgan; 4. Narain Singh; 5. Liaquat Ali and Amelia Bennett; 6. Edwin Forbes; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography

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