Learning to Labour: “Native” Orphans in Colonial India, 1840s–1920s

To this day, the history of indigenous orphans in colonial India remains surprisingly understudied. Unlike the orphans of Britain or European and Eurasian orphans in the colony, who have been widely documented, Indian orphans are largely absent in the existing historiography. This article argues tha...

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Vydáno v:	International review of social history Ročník 65; číslo 1; s. 15 - 42
Hlavní autor:	Soni
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 01.04.2020
Témata:	19th century 20th century Charity Child labor Child poverty Children Children & youth Colonialism Convergence Convict labor Copyright Correctional system Deployment Famine Government archives Historiography Learning Missionaries Non-state actors Orphanages Orphans Parents & parenting Philanthropy Poverty Power Religion Religious missions Self sufficiency Social history Social interest Society State power United Kingdom > UK India
ISSN:	0020-8590, 1469-512X
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Shrnutí:	To this day, the history of indigenous orphans in colonial India remains surprisingly understudied. Unlike the orphans of Britain or European and Eurasian orphans in the colony, who have been widely documented, Indian orphans are largely absent in the existing historiography. This article argues that a study of “native” orphans in India helps us transcend the binary of state power and poor children that has hitherto structured the limited extant research on child “rescue” in colonial India. The essay further argues that by shifting the gaze away from the state, we can vividly see how non-state actors juxtaposed labour and education. I assert that the deployment of child labour by these actors, in their endeavour to educate and make orphans self-sufficient, did not always follow the profitable trajectory of the state-led formal labour regime (seen in the Indian indenture system or early nineteenth-century prison labour). It was often couched in terms of charity and philanthropy and exhibited a convergence of moral and economic concerns.
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ISSN:	0020-8590 1469-512X
DOI:	10.1017/S0020859019000592