Race tea and colonial resettlement : imperial families interrupted A 20th century saga of interracial Anglo Indian tea dynasties prised apart and scattered as far away as New Zealand. Provided by publisher 1. Introduction: The Origin Narrative Section 1. India : Separations 2. Assam Tea Plantation Families 3. St. Andrews Colonial Homes Section 2. New Zealand : Resettlement 4. 1910s : Pathway to a Settler Colony 5. 1920s : Working the Permit System 6. 1930s : Decline and Discontinuance Section 3. Transnational Families 7. Independence 8. Reunion 9. Conclusion 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 missionarys 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