Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Australasia and India

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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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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pp v-vi
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Introduction: Administering Colonial Spaces in Australasia and India
pp vii-xiv
- By Ralph Crane, University of Tasmania, Anna Johnston, University of Tasmania
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Part 1 - Australasia and Its Diaspora
pp 1-2
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1 - Benevolent Empire?
pp 3-23
Protecting Indigenous Peoples in British Australasia
- By Alan Lester, University of Sussex
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2 - Population Control
pp 24-37
A.O. Neville's Anxious Administration
- By Rebecca Dorgelo, University of Tasmania
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3 - “At home” on a Mission Station and in a Female Factory
pp 38-67
Imagining Mary Hutchinson
- By Lucy Frost, University of Tasmania
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4 - “Dead Empires Whisper Wisdom”
pp 68-82
Alfred Domett and the Postcolonial Conscience
- By Mark Williams, University of Wellington
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5 - “Operation Unique”
pp 83-100
Administering Pitcairn Island in the Twenty-First Century
- By Lisa Fletcher, University of Tasmania
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Part 2 - India and Its Diaspora
pp 101-102
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6 - Identifying Sher Mohamad
pp 103-119
‘A good citizen’
- By Margaret Allen, University of Adelaide
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7 - Administering Domestic Space
pp 120-132
Flora Annie Steel's The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
- By Ralph Crane, University of Tasmania, Anna Johnston, University of Tasmania
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8 - The Native Element in the Steel Frame
pp 133-147
Indian ICS Officers' Relationship with British Colleagues
- By Meenakshi Sharma, Indian Institute of Management
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9 - The Production of Colonial Knowledge and the Role of Native Intellectuals
pp 148-160
The Case of Kavali Borraiah
- By C. Vijayasree, Osmania University
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10 - Administering the Literary Empire
pp 161-175
Edmund Gosse, Toru Dutt, and Sarojini Naidu
- By Jane Stafford, Victoria University of Wellington
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Notes on Contributors
pp 176-176
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction: Administering Colonial Spaces in Australasia and India
pp vii-xiv

Part 1 - Australasia and Its Diaspora
pp 1-2

1 - Benevolent Empire?
pp 3-23

2 - Population Control
pp 24-37

3 - “At home” on a Mission Station and in a Female Factory
pp 38-67

4 - “Dead Empires Whisper Wisdom”
pp 68-82

5 - “Operation Unique”
pp 83-100

Part 2 - India and Its Diaspora
pp 101-102

6 - Identifying Sher Mohamad
pp 103-119

7 - Administering Domestic Space
pp 120-132

8 - The Native Element in the Steel Frame
pp 133-147

9 - The Production of Colonial Knowledge and the Role of Native Intellectuals
pp 148-160

10 - Administering the Literary Empire
pp 161-175

Notes on Contributors
pp 176-176

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