This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a
transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and
with a focus on 'subaltern' groups and actors. It breaks new ground
by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking
about colonialism in dynamic terms, the book focuses on the
movement of people of the lower orders that imperial ventures
generated.
Challenging the assumed stability of colonial rule, the social
spaces featured are those that threatened the racial, class and
moral order instituted by British colonial states. By elaborating
on the colonial state's strategies to control perceived 'disorder'
and the modes of resistance and subversion that subaltern subjects
used to challenge state control, a picture of British Empire as an
ultimately precarious, shifting and unruly formation is presented,
which is quite distinct from its self-projected image as an orderly
entity.
Thoroughly researched and innovative in its approach, thisbook
will be a valuable resource for scholars of Asian, British
imperial/colonial, transnational and international history.
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