Featured Book
Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement
“This is a well researched and moving account of the transnational trajectories of families that were made and dispersed by the contingencies of the British Empire and will be of use to scholars of twentieth- century India and New Zealand as well as those interested in race, childhood, migration, missions, genealogical methodologies and oral history.”
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
References
These books may be useful for those wanting to know more about the various elements of this story - British tea-planters in India, the Anglo-Indian community in India and Dr Graham’s Homes. Some of the books are quite old but can be found on Amazon or at local libraries. ‘A Century of Children’ by Simon Mainwaring was bought in Kalimpong and may not be available elsewhere.
Jane’s Publications
McCabe, J. ‘From Polo to Poultry: A Planter’s Legacy’, in Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla (eds), The Lives of Colonial Objects (Otago University Press, 2015)
McCabe, J. ‘Settling in, From Within: Anglo-Indian Lady-Helps in 1920s New Zealand’, in Victoria Haskins and Claire Lowrie (eds) Colonisation and Domestic Service: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2014).
McCabe, J. ‘An Ideal Life: Anglo-Indians in the NZEF’, in Katie Pickles, David Monger and Sarah Murray (eds) Endurance and the First World War: Experiences and Legacies in New Zealand and Australia (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 196-214.
For articles appearing in academic journals, please click here
British Families in India
Elizabeth Buettner, Empire Families: Britons and Late Imperial India, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Vyvyen Brendan, Children of the Raj, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005.
Margaret MacMillan, Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India, New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007.
Tea Planters in Assam
George Barker, A Tea Planter’s Life in Assam, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co, 1884.
F.A. Hetherington, Diary of a Tea Planter, Sussex: The Book Guild, 1994.
A. Ramsden, Assam Planter, London: J Gifford, 1945.
Anglo-Indians in India
Lionel Caplan, Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World, Oxford: Berg, 2001.
Laura Bear, Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy and the Intimate Historical Self, New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Indian settlers in New Zealand
Jacqueline Leckie, Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community, Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2007.
W.H. McLeod, Punjabis in New Zealand, Amritsar: Guru Nanak Dev University, 1986.
Dr Graham’s Homes
Simon Mainwaring, A Century of Children, Kalimpong: Dr Graham’s Homes, 2000.
James Minto, Graham of Kalimpong, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1974.
‘We Homes Chaps’: A film made by Kesang Tseten about the Homes centenary in 2000. A review of this film can be found here.
