Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908--38 (2014)
McCabe, Jane (Author)
Gender and History
Volume: 26, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 438-458
Edition Details: Part of a Series
Language: English
This article examines reciprocity and labour exchange in the British Empire through an emigration scheme that resettled sixty-five adolescent Anglo-Indian men, raised in an institution in northeast India, as rural labourers in New Zealand between 1908 and 1938. Utilising a rich archive generated by the institution's information gathering and promotion of the scheme, the experiences of the men are mobilised to reveal the distinctive formation of race, gender and work in a `conquest' as opposed to a `settler' colony. The key finding is that the unanticipated social realities of life in rural New Zealand limited the extent to which the vision of a smooth path from a marginalised subject to a landowing `colonist' was realised.
...MoreArticle Mitchell, Michele; Shibusawa, Naoko; Miescher, Stephan F. (2014) Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges. Gender and History (pp. 393-414).
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