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"A 20th-century saga of interracial Anglo-Indian tea dynasties prised apart and scattered as far away as New Zealand."--Provided by publisher. "In the early 20th century, the 'problem' of interracial relations between British colonials and natives was a hotly debated topic in British India. One Scottish missionary's solution was to isolate and raise the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women in an institution in Kalimpong, in the foothills of the Himalayas, before permanently resettling them--far from their maternal homeland--as workers in New Zealand. Historian Jane McCabe leads us through a compelling research journey that began with uncovering the story of her own grandmother, Lorna Peters, one of 130 adolescents resettled in New Zealand under the scheme between 1908 and 1938. Using records from the 'Homes' in Kalimpong and in-depth interviews with other descendants in New Zealand, she crafts a compelling, evocative, and unsentimental yet moving narrative--one that not only brings an untold part of imperial history to light, but also transforms previously broken and hushed family histories into an extraordinary collective story. This book attends to both the affective dimension of these traumatic familial disruptions, and to the larger economic and political drivers that saw government and missionary schemes breaking up Anglo-Indian families--schemes that relied on future forgetting"--Provided by publisher.

Racially mixed people --- Anglo-Indians --- Plantation owners --- Tea plantations --- Miscegenation --- Imperialism --- Land settlement --- History --- Family relationships --- Social aspects --- India --- Kālimpong (India) --- New Zealand --- Race relations --- Emigration and immigration --- Resettlement --- Settlement of land --- Colonies --- Land use, Rural --- Human settlements --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Plantations --- Owners of plantations --- Planters (Persons) --- Landowners --- Slaveholders --- Eurasians --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- Nya Zeeland --- Aotearoa --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nowa Zelandia --- Nouvelle-Zélande --- Nu Ziland --- Niu-hsi-lan --- Novzelando --- Nyū Jīrando --- Neu-Seeland --- Nieu-Seeland --- Новая Зеландыя --- Novai︠a︡ Zelandyi︠a︡ --- Novi Zeland --- Нова Зеландия --- Nova Zelandii︠a︡ --- Nova Zelanda --- Nový Zéland --- Neuseeland --- Seland Newydd --- Uus-Meremaa --- Νέα Ζηλανδία --- Nea Zēlandia --- Nueva Zelanda --- Nueva Zelandia --- Nov-Zelando --- Zeelanda Berria --- Nýsæland --- Nýja-Sjáland --- Nuova Zelanda --- ניו זילנד --- Nyu Ziland --- N.Z. (New Zealand) --- NZ --- ニュージーランド --- Nyūjīrando --- Kāliṃpoṅa (India) --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- インド --- Indo --- هند --- Индия --- HISTORY / World. --- HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. --- HISTORY / Australia & New Zealand. --- HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. --- Colonial History --- Imperial History