Subaltern Lives Biographies of Colonialism in the Indian Ocean World, 1790–1920

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781107015098
  • 05 april 2012
  • 238 pagina's
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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.

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05 april 2012
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Clare Anderson
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Cambridge University Press

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    Central Quotation
    “The aim of Subaltern Lives is not to excavate what we might call a ‘subaltern authentic’ in or of the Indian Ocean, but rather to make an intervention on how the writing of life history might shed new light on some of the practices and processes associated with imperial expansion in the Indian Ocean, the ways in which individuals lived them, and the broader geographical and social connections that they underpinned.”

    Argument
    Clare Anderson proposes the use of biographies (micro-history) in order to gain new insights and understandings of what she calls ‘History of Empire’. She does an intersectional analysis on archived files of mostly penal transportations of marginal people to gain insight in the social notions and movability at the margins of Empire.

    Implications
    The argument by Anderson implicates that there are, at least at a certain level, differences between the regulations of an Empire and its actual implementation. When trying to grasp the ideas, notions and view of a gigantic ‘institution’ as an Empire one always ends up looking at averages and broad perspectives. This gives an overview of the matter, but when looking at individual cases one may find deviations or abnormalities between these cases and the grand overview.

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