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Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement ii Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement Imperial Families, Interrupted Jane McCabe Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc LONDON • OXFORD • NEW YORK • NEW DELHI • SYDNEY Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2017 © Jane McCabe, 2017 Jane McCabe has asserted her right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4742-9950-3 ePDF: 978-1-4742-9952-7 ePub: 978-1-4742-9951-0 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McCabe, Jane, author. Title: Race, tea and colonial resettlement : imperial families, interrupted / Jane McCabe. Description: London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016047940| ISBN 9781474299503 (hardback) | ISBN 9781474299510 (ePub) Subjects: LCSH: Racially mixed people–India–History–20th century. | Anglo-Indians–History–20th century. | Plantation owners–Family relationships–India–History– 20th century. | Tea plantations–Social aspects–India–History–20th century. | Miscegenation–India–History–20th century. | India–Race relations–History–20th century. | Imperialism–Social aspects–India–History–20th century. | Kåalimpong (India)–Emigration and immigration–History–20th century. | New Zealand–Emigration and immigration–History–20th century. | Land settlement–New Zealand–History–20th century. | BISAC: HISTORY / World. | HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand. | HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. Classification: LCC DS430 .M35 2017 | DDC 305.8/0521091411093–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016047940 Cover image © The British Library Board Typeset by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India For Bisumia, Jhapri Ghurkali, Ka Ngelibou Marlangiang, Norah, Prosoni and all of the women whose names have not been found vi Contents List of Figures viii List of Tables x Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xiii Preface xiv 1 Introduction: Family, Race and Narrative 1 Section I India – Separations 2 Tea Plantation Families of Northeast India 17 3 St Andrew’s Colonial Homes 44 Section II New Zealand – Settlement 4 1910s: Pathway to a Settler Colony 71 5 1920s: Working the Permit System 97 6 1930s: Decline and Discontinuance 118 Section III Transnational Families 7 Independence 145 8 Recovering Kalimpong 167 Conclusion: A Transcultural Challenge 194 Notes 197 Bibliography 228 Index 242 List of Figures 1.1 Family fragments 5 Private collections (author’s, Langmore, Gammie) 2.1 Historic tea districts in Assam 21 Map created by Harley McCabe 2.2 Planter’s bungalow 24 Hawkins private collection 2.3 The Nicholls children on the plantation 29 Nicholls private collection 2.4 The Nicholls children riding elephants 31 Nicholls private collection 3.1 The Homes complex 54 Langmore private collection 3.2 ‘Ready for school’, Kalimpong 56 Gammie private collection 3.3 ‘At a birthday gathering 1916’, Kalimpong 58 Gammie private collection 3.4 The 1925 Group en route to New Zealand 67 Milne private collection 4.1 Towns in New Zealand 76 Map created by Harley McCabe 4.2 Homes magazine: 1912 emigrants 81 National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh 4.3 Wedding day: Jeannie and John (Harry) Henderson 93 Gale private collection 4.4 Newspaper portraits: men killed in the First World War 94 Hocken Collections, Dunedin 5.1 ‘Picnic at Wilton’s Beach, Wellington’ 105 Milne private collection 5.2 Kalimpong men in Auckland c. 1930 114 Spalding private collection 5.3 Chaston family and Mae Sinclair 116 Milne private collection List of Figures ix 6.1 John Graham’s 1937 tour 126 Map created by Harley McCabe 6.2 Reunion at the Didsbury’s, Wellington, 1937 127 Gammie private collection 6.3 John Graham with George Langmore and family, Dunedin, 1937 129 Langmore private collection 6.4 Kalimpong group at Government House, 1966 165 Gammie private collection 8.1 Gilbert Hawkins in the dorm at Kalimpong 189 Hawkins private collection C.1 Lorna Peters at Pine Hill 195 Author’s collection
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