TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCabe,Jane
TI  - Race, tea and colonial resettlement : imperial families, interrupted 
SN  - 9781474299503
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Racially mixed people
KW  - India
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Anglo-Indians
KW  - Plantation owners
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Tea plantations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Miscegenation
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Land settlement
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - HISTORY / World
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Kālimpong (India)
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-241) and index; 1. Introduction: The Origin Narrative -- Section 1. India : Separations -- 2. Assam Tea Plantation Families -- 3. St. Andrew's Colonial Homes -- Section 2. New Zealand : Resettlement -- 4. 1910s : Pathway to a Settler Colony -- 5. 1920s : Working the Permit System -- 6. 1930s : Decline and Discontinuance -- Section 3. Transnational Families -- 7. Independence -- 8. Reunion -- 9. Conclusion
N2  - "A 20th-century saga of interracial Anglo-Indian tea dynasties prised apart and scattered as far away as New Zealand"--Provided by publisher; "In the early 20th century, the 'problem' of interracial relations between British colonials and natives was a hotly debated topic in British India. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women in an institution in Kalimpong, in the foothills of the Himalayas, before permanently resettling them--far from their maternal homeland--as workers in New Zealand. Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the 'Homes' in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative--one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story. This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families--schemes that relied on future forgetting"--Provided by publisher
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