Migrant Races Empire, Identity and K.S. Ranjitsinhji

by Sen, Satadru

• ISBN13: 9780719069260
• ISBN10: 0719069262
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Migrant Racesis a study of image, identity and mobility in colonial India and imperial Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on the career of Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, who migrated from India to England as a teenager in the 1880s and returned to India in 1907, the book unravels the significance of this "racial misfit" living in a colonial society. While in England Ranjitsinhji rose to the heights of sporting hero, captaining the English cricket team to become one of the best-known athletes in the British empire.

Author Biography

Satadru Sen is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at Washington University of St Louis.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
General editor's introduction	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(15)
Part I "The color of a national invasion": race and the migrant self	16	(67)
I.1 Minding the gap: Ranjitsinhji into England	19	(32)
I.2 Ranji into India	51	(11)
I.3 Enlightened/Oriental/despot	62	(21)
Part II The meanings of money	83	(45)
II.1 Purchasing mobility	85	(15)
II.2 The improving prince	100	(9)
II.3 Money and containment	109	(19)
Part III States of insurgency: loyalty and imperial citizenship	128	(45)
III.1 Loyalty as imperial ethos	132	(6)
III.2 The Great War and small rebellions	138	(8)
III.3 Loyalty and rebellion at the League of Nations	146	(6)
III.4 Kent, Lear and Jardine: the dilemma of imperial federalism	152	(10)
III.5 The other "Other"	162	(11)
Part IV The gendered aquarium	173	(41)
IV.1 Athletic manhood and colonial education	175	(8)
IV.2 The fragile hero	183	(11)
IV.3 The man and his women	194	(20)
Conclusion	214	(6)
Select bibliography	220	(6)
Index	226