Gopalan Balachandran
Biographic Data
| ID | 692682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gopalan Balachandran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gopalan |
| FAMILY NAME | Balachandran |
| SIGNATURE | BALACHANDRAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6045-7470 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893-1905
Dense overlapping networks of multiple currencies were a feature of subcontinental commerce and statehood until the twentieth century. Twenty-seven subcontinental states in addition to the Raj issued their own currencies in 1893. Underpinned by a common basis in silver and an extensive market for their bills, they financed trade and circulated in one another's territories, including British India. By 1905 most currencies had ceased and this sover…
Trabalhadores no mundo: Marinheiros Indianos, C. De 1870-1940
A expansão da marinha mercante britânica na era do vapor foi estimulada pelo emprego de tripulações do subcontinente indiano. Entre os mais mal pagos do mercado, os marinheiros indianos eram os trabalhadores internacionais pioneiros que compunham quase um terço da força de trabalho na marinha britânica em 1937. Rotulados genericamente como "lascars", seu emprego em regimes semelhantes a contratos firmados reforçou o status de "coolies", promoveu …
Indo-US Defence Industry Cooperation: A Prognosis
The defence industrial cooperation is a clear missing link in an otherwise expanding strategic relationship between India and the US. The one-way defence trade is not only out of sync with India’s traditional demand for technology transfer and license production from its arms suppliers, but is also contrary to Make in India initiative of the Indian government. It is, therefore, imperative for New Delhi in particular to find an industrial solution…
History after the global turn: Perspectives from rim and region
Ever since the ‘global turn’ in historical scholarship, the question of what the ‘global’ means from the perspective of individual places or regions has never been far from the surface. Though this
Subaltern cosmopolitanism, racial governance and multiculturalism: Britain, c . 1900–45
This discussion is about cosmopolitan subaltern sociality in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century world. Its main focus is Britain. Put simply, its main argument is that the precocious forms of so
Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870–1945: A Roundtable Response
This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed acc…
Les marins indiens et leurs univers, 1870-1949
À partir des années 1870, de plus en plus de marins indiens sont allés travailler sur des navires étrangers, dont la grande majorité (plus des deux tiers) sont britanniques. Ces marins ont habité un monde marqué en profondeur par la race, qui déterminait quelles tâches ils remplissaient, combien ils seraient payés et comment ils seraient traités. Pourtant jusqu'à une période récente les marins indiens sont restés dans l'ombre, comme une classe in…
Making Coolies, (Un)making Workers: "Globalizing" Labour in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
This paper explores the social relationships of wage labour formed or stabilized in British merchant shipping in the course of "off-shoring" employment in the late-19th century. It argues that Asian wage-workers were mobilized for employment on British merchant vessels as "coolies", i.e. nominally free but mediated labouring subjects who could only be stabilized through legal, penal, social, debt, or other forms of coercion. Once introduced "cool…
Sovereignty, Subjectivities, Narrations: Nations and other Stories from the Sea
Nuclear realpolitik The prospects for Indo-Us Relations
Recruitment and Control of Indian Seamen: Calcutta, 1880–1935
Gold, Silver, and India in Anglo-American Monetary Relations, 1925–1933
Anglo-American relations during the inter-war years alternated between co-operation and conflict, the goal the two powers professed in the 1920s, of durable global economic and financial stability, proved tantalizingly beyond reach. Yet few will deny that relations between the United States and Great Britain were of greater import for the functioning of the inter-war world economy than those between any other pair of countries. Periods of close t…
Reappraisal: Finance and politics in late colonial India 1917–1947
Britain's late-nineteenth century expansion overseas, few serious scholars would argue that economics had nothing to do with the phenomenon.Equally, few would suggest that the British empire was only about economics.This plural consensus was, of course, a product of sheer fatigue.Both to participants and others, the debate over the origins of the modern British empire must have appeared never ending at one time: consider here the Davis and Hutten…
Finance orientalism'? Britain, the United States, and India's wartime currency crisis, 1914–1918
(1993). 'Finance orientalism'? Britain, the United States, and India's wartime currency crisis, 1914–1918. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 89-106
Making Coolies, (Un)making Workers: "Globalizing" Labour in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
This paper explores the social relationships of wage labour formed or stabilized in British merchant shipping in the course of "off-shoring" employment in the late-19th century. It argues that Asian wage-workers were mobilized for employment on British merchant vessels as "coolies", i.e. nominally free but mediated labouring subjects who could only be stabilized through legal, penal, social, debt, or other forms of coercion. Once introduced "cool…
Subaltern cosmopolitanism, racial governance and multiculturalism: Britain, c . 1900–45
This discussion is about cosmopolitan subaltern sociality in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century world. Its main focus is Britain. Put simply, its main argument is that the precocious forms of so
Sovereignty, Subjectivities, Narrations: Nations and other Stories from the Sea
Recruitment and Control of Indian Seamen: Calcutta, 1880–1935
Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870–1945: A Roundtable Response
This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed acc…
Nuclear realpolitik The prospects for Indo-Us Relations
Finance orientalism'? Britain, the United States, and India's wartime currency crisis, 1914–1918
(1993). 'Finance orientalism'? Britain, the United States, and India's wartime currency crisis, 1914–1918. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 89-106
Gold, Silver, and India in Anglo-American Monetary Relations, 1925–1933
Anglo-American relations during the inter-war years alternated between co-operation and conflict, the goal the two powers professed in the 1920s, of durable global economic and financial stability, proved tantalizingly beyond reach. Yet few will deny that relations between the United States and Great Britain were of greater import for the functioning of the inter-war world economy than those between any other pair of countries. Periods of close t…
Reappraisal: Finance and politics in late colonial India 1917–1947
Britain's late-nineteenth century expansion overseas, few serious scholars would argue that economics had nothing to do with the phenomenon.Equally, few would suggest that the British empire was only about economics.This plural consensus was, of course, a product of sheer fatigue.Both to participants and others, the debate over the origins of the modern British empire must have appeared never ending at one time: consider here the Davis and Hutten…
Recruitment and Control of Indian Seamen: Calcutta, 1880–1935
Nuclear realpolitik The prospects for Indo-Us Relations
Sovereignty, Subjectivities, Narrations: Nations and other Stories from the Sea
Making Coolies, (Un)making Workers: "Globalizing" Labour in the Late-19th and Early-20th Centuries
This paper explores the social relationships of wage labour formed or stabilized in British merchant shipping in the course of "off-shoring" employment in the late-19th century. It argues that Asian wage-workers were mobilized for employment on British merchant vessels as "coolies", i.e. nominally free but mediated labouring subjects who could only be stabilized through legal, penal, social, debt, or other forms of coercion. Once introduced "cool…
Les marins indiens et leurs univers, 1870-1949
À partir des années 1870, de plus en plus de marins indiens sont allés travailler sur des navires étrangers, dont la grande majorité (plus des deux tiers) sont britanniques. Ces marins ont habité un monde marqué en profondeur par la race, qui déterminait quelles tâches ils remplissaient, combien ils seraient payés et comment ils seraient traités. Pourtant jusqu'à une période récente les marins indiens sont restés dans l'ombre, comme une classe in…
Globalizing Labour? Indian Seafarers and World Shipping, c. 1870–1945: A Roundtable Response
This book deals with maritime workers, seafarers and merchant shipping in the Indian subcontinent during a crucial period of the British Empire. It examines the recruitment and control of coolies and seafarers, their social and regional composition, wages, itineraries, work, voyages, as well as patterns of resistance. This volume also explores the importance of Indian labour in the context of European merchant shipping. It provides a detailed acc…
Subaltern cosmopolitanism, racial governance and multiculturalism: Britain, c . 1900–45
This discussion is about cosmopolitan subaltern sociality in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century world. Its main focus is Britain. Put simply, its main argument is that the precocious forms of so
History after the global turn: Perspectives from rim and region
Ever since the ‘global turn’ in historical scholarship, the question of what the ‘global’ means from the perspective of individual places or regions has never been far from the surface. Though this
Indo-US Defence Industry Cooperation: A Prognosis
The defence industrial cooperation is a clear missing link in an otherwise expanding strategic relationship between India and the US. The one-way defence trade is not only out of sync with India’s traditional demand for technology transfer and license production from its arms suppliers, but is also contrary to Make in India initiative of the Indian government. It is, therefore, imperative for New Delhi in particular to find an industrial solution…
Trabalhadores no mundo: Marinheiros Indianos, C. De 1870-1940
A expansão da marinha mercante britânica na era do vapor foi estimulada pelo emprego de tripulações do subcontinente indiano. Entre os mais mal pagos do mercado, os marinheiros indianos eram os trabalhadores internacionais pioneiros que compunham quase um terço da força de trabalho na marinha britânica em 1937. Rotulados genericamente como "lascars", seu emprego em regimes semelhantes a contratos firmados reforçou o status de "coolies", promoveu …
Debasing Indigenous Statehood: Sovereign Monies, Markets and Imperial Power in the Indian Subcontinent, c.1893-1905
Dense overlapping networks of multiple currencies were a feature of subcontinental commerce and statehood until the twentieth century. Twenty-seven subcontinental states in addition to the Raj issued their own currencies in 1893. Underpinned by a common basis in silver and an extensive market for their bills, they financed trade and circulated in one another's territories, including British India. By 1905 most currencies had ceased and this sover…
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