Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: April Veness, Dept. of Geography. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1981. / Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2003. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Ashland Theological Seminary, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 179-184).

Summary in English. / The contention underlying this dissertation is that ethnic identity and notions of community in South Africa are the result of several intertwined processes, which include historic interventions by the state to create 'groups' and 'nations' as building blocks for apartheid structures. These processes also encompass initiatives by those oppressed to constitute 'oppositional' communities. Both sets of activities have occurred in specific historical and material circumstances. By focusing specifically on a 'group' descended largely from merchant forebears, this study of Cape Indians examines the significance over time of the class, caste and religious cleavages within a constructed 'community'. Moreover, this dissertation discusses the effects of political currents on Indians in the Western Cape whose relatively more privileged position in relation to Indians in Natal and the Transvaal has been instrumental in isolating them from most of the events in the other provinces. It is hoped that this dissertation will contribute not only to the history of the Western Cape but, in a broader sense, also to the history of Indians in South Africa.

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This dissertation approaches key questions in the study of colonial urban modernity through methods in the history of medicine and sciences. Through a comparative focus on the colonial cities of Bombay and Calcutta, I explore the new found interests of colonial urban planners, public health experts, and Indian social elites in the “unclaimed bodies” of the poor, which were considered both diseased and disposable, and attendant concerns with the scientific management of subaltern death. By exploring the converging logics yet the divergent outcomes of colonial state and native elite efforts to manage the death of the urban poor and indigent as an urban problem that required scientific solutions such as the gas crematorium or relegating mass burials for unclaimed bodies to the suburbs, this study in comparative urbanism demonstrates how the imperatives of colonial public health and political economy followed by a heightened period of native critique between the two world wars reconfigured global ideas of health and technologies. From the mid-nineteenth century, epidemics and famines had provided the occasion for British and Indian social elites to reconstitute social power and remake boundaries of caste and community in the context of urban migration and industrial labor. While famines happened in Western India, an emergent preoccupation with tropical diseases in Eastern India had reconfigured the meaning and the social experience of death for the urban poor. Working class bodies thus became the locus of the entangled knowledge-making of health, technology, and religion in regionally specific ways. In particular, modern technologies such as the gas and electric crematorium enabled the spatial reorganization of labor, caste, and community in the service of a colonial political economy: modern technologies for the efficient and hygienic disposal of the dead bodies of the indigent and impoverished were thus also solutions for managing the lives of the working castes and classes. The scientific management of subaltern death was not just the preoccupation of anatomists, doctors, and public health engineers but as well, of the British Parliament, international health organizations, Indian and British members of municipalities, missionaries, religious charity leaders, communal organizations, anti-caste leaders, and subaltern mortuary workers. Simultaneously, anti-colonial and subaltern politics transformed the effects of scientific knowledge and infrastructure in both Bombay and Calcutta, albeit differently in response to framing antagonisms of caste, capital, and community. Thus, despite the normalizing and homogenizing impetus of colonialism, health policies and attendant technologies reacted to and reflected the impact of local configurations of power and urban space. Putting the history and anthropology of death into conversation with the global history of medicine, science, and technology in the context of colonial and postcolonial South Asia allows us to understand how global technologies under imperialism engaged with local social meanings to bring about epistemic shifts in perceptions and practices of the body, while also altering spatial and social relations. The subcontinental history of the crematorium thus reflects the ongoing impact of discourses and infrastructures of public health and hygiene in redefining bodies marked by social distinctions of caste, class and religion in the colonial metropole through acts of spatial politics. The introduction of the crematorium in colonial India reproduced extant practices of social hierarchy and spatial segregation but it also became an enabling infrastructure through which anti-caste activists, Marxists and Socialists imagined scientific modernity and a future without segregation.

by Noel Law Sin Yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [4-6] (3rd gp.)). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Scope of Study --- p.1 / Chapter 2. --- Literature Review and Theoretical Discussion --- p.5 / Chapter 3. --- Methodology --- p.14 / Chapter 4. --- Lay out of the Thesis --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- The Historical Background and Settlement Pattern of Indians in Hong Kong --- p.18 / Chapter 1 . --- Historical Background of Indians in Hong Kong --- p.18 / Chapter 2. --- Distribution Pattern of Indians in Hong Kong --- p.22 / Chapter 3. --- Immigration Policies --- p.24 / Chapter 4. --- History of Well-Known Indians --- p.26 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Indian Associations in Hong Kong --- p.28 / Chapter 1 . --- Why Do They Join Associations --- p.28 / Chapter 2. --- The Council of Hong Kong Indian Associations --- p.29 / India Association Hong Kong --- p.33 / The Hong Kong Indian Women's Club --- p.34 / The Tamil Cultural Association --- p.40 / Chapter 3. --- Other Associations --- p.42 / Chapter 4. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.45 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- The Sense of Belonging and Ethnic Identity --- p.48 / Chapter 1 --- .Sense of Belonging --- p.49 / Chapter 2. --- The Differences between Sojourners and Settlers --- p.50 / Chapter 3 . --- Hong Kong Indians VS Hong Kong Chinese --- p.53 / Chapter 4. --- Ethnic Markers / Language --- p.56 / Caste --- p.64 / Marriage --- p.66 / Religion --- p.75 / Chapter 5. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.81 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- The Transnational Network between Hong Kong and India / Chapter 1. --- Transnationalism --- p.82 / Chapter 2. --- The Closeness between China and India --- p.88 / Chapter Chapter 6. --- Conclusion --- p.94 / Appendices / Bibliography