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British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations & the Empire

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British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations & the Empire

SKU: 9781742236216 Category: Product ID: 13014

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Title: British India, White Australia: Overseas Indians, intercolonial relations & the Empire
Author: MACLEAN KAMA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2020
Imprint: UNSW PRESS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Commonwealth, curry and cricket has
become the belaboured phrase by which Australia seeks to emphasise its shared
colonial heritage with India and improve bilateral relations in the process.
Yet it is misleading because the legacy of empire differs in profound ways in
both countries. Indians may be the fastest-growing group of migrants to
Australia, but they have long been present.


British India, White Australia explores connections between Australia and India through the lens
of the British Empire, by tracing the lives of people of Indian descent in
Australia, from Australian Federation to Indian independence. The White
Australia Policy was firmly in place while both countries were part of the
British Empire. Australia was nominally self-governing but still attached very
strongly to Britain; India was driven by the desire for independence. The
racist immigration policies of dominions like Australia, and Britain s
inability to reform them, further animated nationalist sentiments in India.


Kama Maclean has undertaken extensive
archival research in all three countries and the book includes cartoons and
photographs, many of them shocking, that reflect attitudes of the time. In this
original, landmark work she calls for more meaningful dialogue and acknowledgment
of the constraints placed upon Indians in Australia and those attempting to
immigrate. The force of white imperialism was strong: some Australians may have
found solidarity with the cause of Indian nationalism, but at the point British
India ceased to exist, White Australia remained steadfast.


Indians are now the fastest-growing
group of migrants in Australia, yet their presence has a long history, as told
in this book.

At last a history of the
triangular relations between the United Kingdom, India and Australia that
locates the tensions around the White Australia policy within the British
imperial context. Even as Australians and Indians enjoyed a common status as
British subjects, the superior rights accorded white colonies belied the myth
of imperial equality. As this brilliant book shows, only by escaping
empire can Australians and Indians forge independent relations based
on reciprocity and mutual respect. Professor Marilyn Lake


Original and
pioneering, this connected history looks at Indian Australian relations
through Empire, race, and postcolonial belonging told with deep scholarship,
irony and style. Dilip Menon

ISBN: 9781742236216
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm

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Dimensions 234 × 153 mm