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This article examines British encounters with Indian, Andamanese, white and African orphans in colonial India in the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that orphans provided colonial administrators with opportunities to articulate increasingly scientific constructions of race, which might undergird contemporary imperialism, and simultaneously to explore the limits of colonial authority. The absence of parents was doubly helpful to these discoveries. At one level, the removal of the parent isolated the child from the contamination of culture. This left it available to experts, who wished to study the nature of the biological material or to leave their own impressions. At another level, it eliminated a source of political interference in the relationship between the child and the unrelated adult, which could now be interpreted largely in terms of scientific, bureaucratic or political necessity, including the language of savage-repression that constitutes a part of the prose of counter-insurgency. Orphaning was not only a metaphor for governance, it was also a problem of governance, and in some situations, a technique for the management of colonised populations.

"On 28 September 1871 an anonymous letter in a local newspaper complained that slaves from North Africa were being landed in Malta for later transfer to the Levant. That letter led to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons and opened a can of worms for the British administration in Malta. Both the Foreign and Colonial Offices in London and the Malta governors had to seek a solution to the thorny problem. All efforts to stamp the practice, however, proved frustrating for the local administration; the only consequence being accusations of negligence or connivance from British consuls in the Levant. Furthermore, such incidents provided the French-born American consul in Tripoli with ammunition to attack the British authorities in the attempt to push the interests of his adoptive nation. Additionally, the book deals extensively with the plight of the slaves landed in Malta, and the interests and ambitions of their owners."--Publisher description

ABSTRACTThis article explores the British Empire's configuration of imprisonment and transportation in the Andaman Islands penal colony. It shows that British governance in the Islands produced new modes of carcerality and coerced migration in which the relocation of convicts, prisoners, and criminal tribes underpinned imperial attempts at political dominance and economic development. The article focuses on the penal transportation of Eurasian convicts, the employment of free Eurasians and Anglo-Indians as convict overseers and administrators, the migration of "volunteer" Indian prisoners from the mainland, the free settlement of Anglo-Indians, and the forced resettlement of the Bhantu "criminal tribe". It examines the issue from the periphery of British India, thus showing that class, race, and criminality combined to produce penal and social outcomes that were different from those of the imperial mainland. These were related to ideologies of imperial governmentality, including social discipline and penal practice, and the exigencies of political economy.

"The so-called land question dominates political discourse in British Columbia. Unstable Properties reverses the usual approach - investigating Aboriginal claims to Crown land - to reframe the issue as a history of Crown attempts to solidify claims to Indigenous territory. From the historical-geographic processes through which the BC polity became entrenched in its present territory to key events of the twenty-first century, the authors highlight the unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements. In the process, they demonstrate that only by understanding diverse interpretations of sovereignty, governance, territory, and property can we move toward meaningful reconciliation."--