LEADER 03940nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910457608003321 005 20210603195848.0 010 $a1-282-76223-0 010 $a9786612762239 010 $a0-520-93333-8 010 $a1-4337-0969-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520933330 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354337 035 $a(EBL)291507 035 $a(OCoLC)134947959 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177080 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11182240 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177080 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10209324 035 $a(PQKB)10762224 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC291507 035 $a(DE-B1597)519626 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520933330 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL291507 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170138 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276223 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354337 100 $a20060629d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperial connections$b[electronic resource] $eIndia in the Indian Ocean arena, 1860-1920 /$fThomas R. Metcalf 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 225 1 $aThe California world history library ;$v4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-520-25805-3 311 0 $a0-520-24946-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: Empire Recentered --$t1. Governing Colonial Peoples --$t2. Constructing Identities --$t3. Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas --$t4. Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military --$t5. "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal --$t6. India in East Africa --$tConclusion --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAn innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that made possible British conquest, control, and governance across a wide arc of territory stretching from Africa to eastern Asia. His book, offering a new perspective on how imperialism operates, emphasizes transcolonial interactions and webs of influence that advanced the interests of colonial India and Britain alike. Metcalf examines such topics as law codes and administrative forms as they were shaped by Indian precedents; the Indian Army's role in securing Malaya, Africa, and Mesopotamia for the empire; the employment of Indians, especially Sikhs, in colonial policing; and the transformation of East Africa into what was almost a province of India through the construction of the Uganda railway. He concludes with a look at the decline of this Indian Ocean system after 1920 and considers how far India's participation in it opened opportunities for Indians to be a colonizing as well as a colonized people. 410 0$aCalifornia world history library ;$v4. 606 $aEast Indians$xColonization$zIndian Ocean Region$xHistory 606 $aEast Indians$xEmployment$zIndian Ocean Region$xHistory 607 $aIndian Ocean Region$xColonization$xHistory 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAfrica$xAdministration 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAsia$xAdministration 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEast Indians$xColonization$xHistory. 615 0$aEast Indians$xEmployment$xHistory. 676 $a909/.09824081 700 $aMetcalf$b Thomas R.$f1934-$0600683 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457608003321 996 $aImperial connections$92366689 997 $aUNINA