Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Empire Recentered -- 1 -- Governing Colonial Peoples -- 2 -- Constructing Identities -- 3 -- Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas -- 4 -- Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military -- 5 -- "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal -- 6 -- India in East Africa -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
An 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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index
