The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean Region

This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, and with a focus on subaltern groups and actors. Challenging the assumed stability of colonial rule, it analyses the ways in which the racial, class and moral order instituted by British colonial states was resisted and subverted.

Introduction Ashwini Tambe and Harald Fischer-Tinè Part I. Subaltern Mobility and the Problem of Control and Containment 1. Networks of Subordination and Networks of the Subordinated: The Case of South Asian Maritime Labour under British Imperialism (c. 1890-1947) Ravi Ahuja 2. Passport, Ticket, and India Rubber-stamp: 'the Problem of the Pauper Pilgrim' in Colonial India (c.1882-1925) Radhika Singha 3. 'Heshima' - British War Time Propaganda to East African Troops in Ceylon, (1943-45) Katrin Bromber Part II. Subalternity, Race and the Transgression of Moral Boundaries 4. Discourses of Exclusion and the 'Convict Stain' in the Indian Ocean (c. 1800-1850) Clare Anderson 5. Flotsam and Jetsam of the Empire? European Seamen and Spaces of Disease and Disorder in mid-Nineteenth Century Calcutta Harald Fischer-Tinè 6. Degenerate Whites and their Spaces of Disorder: Disciplining Racial and class Ambiguities in Colonial Calcutta, (c. 1880 - 1930) Satoshi Mizutani 7. Hierarchies of Subalternity: Managed Stratification in Bombay's Brothels, 1914 -1930 Ashwini Tambe