Crispin Bates
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Crispin Bates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Crispin |
| FAMILY NAME | Bates |
| SIGNATURE | BATES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1978-5106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
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Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora
Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century onwards. This book aims to highlight the careers of these migrants who served as vital agents in building the global society of the twenty-first century. It explores the transformative experiences of those who migrated, and the memories of those wh…
The Slow Death of the Diorama
During colonial times, dioramas were commonly used to portray the diverse peoples of India. They depicted essentialised human types through plaster models in rural settings, engaged in typical activities, and dated back to the exhibition of human beings in universal expositions held in Calcutta, Delhi and London. Since Independence, there have been determined efforts to move away from colonial stereotypes and to decolonise government-funded museu…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme …
Interrogating Orientalism
Thimithi – the Tamil Hindu fire-walking ceremony has always attracted the attention of the curious and the thrill seeker and remains a tourist attraction as well as the performance of a solemn vow in many parts of the world where it continues to be enacted. A source of much speculation as to the participants’ apparent ability to withstand the pain of walking over hot coals, travellers’ often exaggerated accounts of eye witness attendance at such …
Coolitude, the concept, its resonances and afterlives
Marina Carter is an independent researcher and also works as a cultural heritage
Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora
This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks ar…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean Crispin Bates and Marina Carter I beg to say that about 2 and a half years ago I came with my wife (Sinnapona) and two children (Casu-12 years old boy and Perumal sami-11 months old boy) from my country in India to Madras in order to come to Malaya through Immigration Recruit. When we came to Madras there was no Immigration Recruit, and we were about to go back to our country. In Madra…
Popular and Public Indian Memorials
Some Thoughts on the Representation and Misrepresentation of the Colonial South Asian Labour Diaspora
This paper explores the representation and misrepresentation of indentured Indian labour migration in the colonial archive and subsequent historiography, and offers some suggestions for alternate ways of viewing the origins of the South Asian labour diaspora. Drawing on ongoing research, it emphasises the need to move away from well-worn dichotomies of ‘slavery’ and ‘free labour’ and instead to re-centre the role of human agency and creativity, e…
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Cities in South Asia
1. Introduction: Cities in South Asia - interdisciplinary perspectives Crispin Bates Part 1: Ideologies of City Making: the formation of the Indian city 2. Cities in India: an archaeological perspective Junichi Fukao 3. Who Built 'the City of Victory'? Representation of a 'Hindu' capital in an 'Islamicate' world Nobuhiro Ota Part 2: Politics of Town Planning: colonial and post-colonial 4. Patrick Geddes and the Metropolis Partha Datta 5. Islam an…
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
Creating, changing, and recovering community
The 23rd Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) took place at the University of Edinburgh, 30 March–1 April 2009. The conference was convened by Crispin Bates
Conjuring images of India in nineteenth-century Britain
Ask the average man for what India is most celebrated, and chances are ten to one that he will ignore the glories of the Taj Mahal, the beneficence of British rule, even Mr Kipling, and will unhesi
Community, Empire and Migration
List of Tables and Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Community and Identity Among South Asians in Diaspora C.Bates 'They Cannot Represent Themselves': Threats to Difference and So-Called Community Politics in Fiji from 1936-47 J.D.Kelly Nested Identities: Ethnicity, Community and the Nature of Group Conflict in Mauritius A.Nave The Development of Communalism among East African Asians M.Twaddle Imagining? Ethnic …
Community, Empire and Migration
South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, suc
Community, Empire and Migration
South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, suc
Selves and others
Community, Empire and Migration
Regional Dependence and Rural Development in Central India
The problem of regional underdevelopment, particularly in tribal India, has long been recognized and more than one political party has campaigned on this issue. The Indian constitution and state and central government development plans have included special clauses aimed at assisting those groups, the tribals or adivasis, who are most affected by the problem. Reports have been commissioned and investigations conducted, but rarely have these ended…
The Nature of Social Change in Rural Gujarat
The Kheda (or Kaira) district has lately attracted great interest among Indian historians, not only because it was the area in which Gandhi chose to launch the very first peasant 'satyagraha' in resistance to government revenue demands, but also because it harboured a highly progressive class of peasant farmers, known as the Patidars, who to this day rank among the wealthiest cultivators in Western India
The Nature of Social Change in Rural Gujarat
The Kheda (or Kaira) district has lately attracted great interest among Indian historians, not only because it was the area in which Gandhi chose to launch the very first peasant 'satyagraha' in resistance to government revenue demands, but also because it harboured a highly progressive class of peasant farmers, known as the Patidars, who to this day rank among the wealthiest cultivators in Western India
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Some Thoughts on the Representation and Misrepresentation of the Colonial South Asian Labour Diaspora
This paper explores the representation and misrepresentation of indentured Indian labour migration in the colonial archive and subsequent historiography, and offers some suggestions for alternate ways of viewing the origins of the South Asian labour diaspora. Drawing on ongoing research, it emphasises the need to move away from well-worn dichotomies of ‘slavery’ and ‘free labour’ and instead to re-centre the role of human agency and creativity, e…
Regional Dependence and Rural Development in Central India
The problem of regional underdevelopment, particularly in tribal India, has long been recognized and more than one political party has campaigned on this issue. The Indian constitution and state and central government development plans have included special clauses aimed at assisting those groups, the tribals or adivasis, who are most affected by the problem. Reports have been commissioned and investigations conducted, but rarely have these ended…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Conjuring images of India in nineteenth-century Britain
Ask the average man for what India is most celebrated, and chances are ten to one that he will ignore the glories of the Taj Mahal, the beneficence of British rule, even Mr Kipling, and will unhesi
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
The Nature of Social Change in Rural Gujarat
The Kheda (or Kaira) district has lately attracted great interest among Indian historians, not only because it was the area in which Gandhi chose to launch the very first peasant 'satyagraha' in resistance to government revenue demands, but also because it harboured a highly progressive class of peasant farmers, known as the Patidars, who to this day rank among the wealthiest cultivators in Western India
Regional Dependence and Rural Development in Central India
The problem of regional underdevelopment, particularly in tribal India, has long been recognized and more than one political party has campaigned on this issue. The Indian constitution and state and central government development plans have included special clauses aimed at assisting those groups, the tribals or adivasis, who are most affected by the problem. Reports have been commissioned and investigations conducted, but rarely have these ended…
Community, Empire and Migration
Community, Empire and Migration
South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, suc
Community, Empire and Migration
South Asians in Diaspora is a collection of essays concerning the history, politics, and anthropology of migration in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, as well as in the numerous overseas locations, suc
Selves and others
Community, Empire and Migration
List of Tables and Figures List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Community and Identity Among South Asians in Diaspora C.Bates 'They Cannot Represent Themselves': Threats to Difference and So-Called Community Politics in Fiji from 1936-47 J.D.Kelly Nested Identities: Ethnicity, Community and the Nature of Group Conflict in Mauritius A.Nave The Development of Communalism among East African Asians M.Twaddle Imagining? Ethnic …
Conjuring images of India in nineteenth-century Britain
Ask the average man for what India is most celebrated, and chances are ten to one that he will ignore the glories of the Taj Mahal, the beneficence of British rule, even Mr Kipling, and will unhesi
Empire and locality
The Indian Uprising of 1857–59, during which thousands of Indian soldiers serving in the British army mutinied, joined by many civilians, led to the identification of a vast number of ‘rebels’ and discussions as to the most appropriate means of punishing them. The wholesale transportation of insurgents was considered a likely scenario in the charged atmosphere of late 1857. The uprising coincided with dramatic increases in the world market price …
Creating, changing, and recovering community
The 23rd Annual Conference of the British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) took place at the University of Edinburgh, 30 March–1 April 2009. The conference was convened by Crispin Bates
Cities in South Asia
1. Introduction: Cities in South Asia - interdisciplinary perspectives Crispin Bates Part 1: Ideologies of City Making: the formation of the Indian city 2. Cities in India: an archaeological perspective Junichi Fukao 3. Who Built 'the City of Victory'? Representation of a 'Hindu' capital in an 'Islamicate' world Nobuhiro Ota Part 2: Politics of Town Planning: colonial and post-colonial 4. Patrick Geddes and the Metropolis Partha Datta 5. Islam an…
Popular and Public Indian Memorials
Some Thoughts on the Representation and Misrepresentation of the Colonial South Asian Labour Diaspora
This paper explores the representation and misrepresentation of indentured Indian labour migration in the colonial archive and subsequent historiography, and offers some suggestions for alternate ways of viewing the origins of the South Asian labour diaspora. Drawing on ongoing research, it emphasises the need to move away from well-worn dichotomies of ‘slavery’ and ‘free labour’ and instead to re-centre the role of human agency and creativity, e…
Sirdars as Intermediaries in Nineteenth-century Indian Ocean Indentured Labour Migration
The sirdar (also termed sardar and jobber in Indian historiography)-foreman, recruiter, at once a labour leader and an important intermediary figure for the employers of labour both in India and in the sugar colonies-is reassessed in this article. Tithankar Roy's thoughtful 2007 article looked at how the sirdars' multiple roles represent an incorporation of traditional authority in a modern setting, giving rise to certain contradictions. In 2010 …
Trust in the Indian Labour Diaspora
This paper investigates the role of trust relationships through a re-examination of the activities of intermediaries (recruiters) in the Indian indentured labour system of the Indian Ocean in the colonial era. A review of the utilisation of trust in development discourse and its applicability to the literature of colonial subaltern migration and to a specific historical context is undertaken. The paper demonstrates that informal trust networks ar…
Kala pani revisited
This article examines the reconstruction and deconstruction of the concept of काला पानी or kālā pānā , meaning the ‘black waters’, which all Indians must cross when migrating overseas. From its origin as a Brahmanic text warning about the dangers of oceanic voyages, through its dissemination as a more generalised stricture against emigration and its use and abuse as a British colonial construction, to its recasting as a historical trope and a lit…
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean
Remigration of Indian Subalterns in the Colonial Indian Ocean Crispin Bates and Marina Carter I beg to say that about 2 and a half years ago I came with my wife (Sinnapona) and two children (Casu-12 years old boy and Perumal sami-11 months old boy) from my country in India to Madras in order to come to Malaya through Immigration Recruit. When we came to Madras there was no Immigration Recruit, and we were about to go back to our country. In Madra…
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations
Volume II presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme …
Interrogating Orientalism
Thimithi – the Tamil Hindu fire-walking ceremony has always attracted the attention of the curious and the thrill seeker and remains a tourist attraction as well as the performance of a solemn vow in many parts of the world where it continues to be enacted. A source of much speculation as to the participants’ apparent ability to withstand the pain of walking over hot coals, travellers’ often exaggerated accounts of eye witness attendance at such …
Coolitude, the concept, its resonances and afterlives
Marina Carter is an independent researcher and also works as a cultural heritage
Girmitiyas and the Global Indian Diaspora
Many Indians journeyed out of India to supplant the loss of slave labour in the former European plantation colonies of Mauritius, South Africa, Fiji, and the Caribbean from the early nineteenth century onwards. This book aims to highlight the careers of these migrants who served as vital agents in building the global society of the twenty-first century. It explores the transformative experiences of those who migrated, and the memories of those wh…
The Slow Death of the Diorama
During colonial times, dioramas were commonly used to portray the diverse peoples of India. They depicted essentialised human types through plaster models in rural settings, engaged in typical activities, and dated back to the exhibition of human beings in universal expositions held in Calcutta, Delhi and London. Since Independence, there have been determined efforts to move away from colonial stereotypes and to decolonise government-funded museu…
Rethinking Subalterns, Archives and Histories in the Present
No description supplied
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