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

by Harald Fischer Tiné, Harald Fischer-Tiné, Ashwini Tambe

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415533236
• ISBN13: 9780415533232
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"