Disciplined Natives: Race, Freedom and Confinement in Colonial India

AUTHOR- Satadru Sen

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This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children’s literature.
The included essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the body of the inmate to the confined ‘soul’, colonial disciplinary institutions ensured that race was firmly attached to the body and its habits. Situated within the work on gender, domesticity and the state, they also engage the historiography that has sought to underline the challenges of reconciling Michel Foucault and Edward Said, i.e. studying the making of norms in a world of deviance and difference. They ask whether the liberating possibilities of the racialized-and-embodied ‘native’ self were confined to inversions and rearrangements of given normative hierarchies, or if we can occasionally glimpse radical departures and alternative configurations of power.

The Author
Satadru Sen is Associate Professor of South Asian history at the City University of New York.

This volume examines three interrelated aspects of the history of British India: race, the disciplining institution, and attempts by the colonized to imagine states of freedom. They deal with sites as diverse as the prison, the family, the classroom, the playing field and children’s literature.
The included essays confront the ideological, social and political ramifications of the fact that even as metropolitan prisons and schools shifted their attention from the body of the inmate to the confined ‘soul’, colonial disciplinary institutions ensured that race was firmly attached to the body and its habits. Situated within the work on gender, domesticity and the state, they also engage the historiography that has sought to underline the challenges of reconciling Michel Foucault and Edward Said, i.e. studying the making of norms in a world of deviance and difference. They ask whether the liberating possibilities of the racialized-and-embodied ‘native’ self were confined to inversions and rearrangements of given normative hierarchies, or if we can occasionally glimpse radical departures and alternative configurations of power.

The Author
Satadru Sen is Associate Professor of South Asian history at the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Race, Freedom AndConfinement 1-12
1. Anarchies Of Youth: The Oaten Affair And Colonial Bengal 13-41
2. A Juvenile Periphery: Childhood AndLiterature In Colonial Bengal 42-68
3. Chameleon Games: Ranjitsinhji’s Politics Of Race And Gender 69-106
4. The Politics Of Deracination: Empire, Education And Elite Children 107-131
5. The Orphaned Colony: Orphanage, Child And Authority In British India 132-159
6. A Separate Punishment: Juvenile Offenders In Colonial India 160-188
7. The Savage Family: Colonialism And Female Infanticide In Nineteenth-Century India 189-216
8. The Female Jails OfColonial India 217-242
9. Rationing Sex: Female Convicts In The Andaman Islands 243-273
10. On The Beach In The Andaman Islands: Post-Mortem Of A Failed Colony 274-298
11. Lost Between Africa And Tasmania: Racializing The Andamanese 299-326
12. Savagery, Aboriginality And The Modern State 327-349
Index 351-359