Research Catalog

Title

Kalimpong kids : the New Zealand story, in pictures / Jane McCabe.

Author

McCabe, Jane

Publication

• Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2020.
• ©2020

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Details

Description

139 pages : illustrations (some colour); 23 cm

Summary

In the early 20th century, 130 young Anglo-Indians were sent to New Zealand in an organised immigration scheme from Kalimpong, in the Darjeeling district of India. They were the mixed-race children of British tea planters and local women, and were placed as workers with New Zealand families from the Far North to Southland. Their settlement in New Zealand was the initiative of a Scottish Presbyterian missionary, the Rev Dr John Anderson Graham, who aimed to 'rescue' and provide a home and an education for children whose opportunities would have been limited in the country of their birth. Jane McCabe is the granddaughter of Lorna Peters, who arrived with a group from Kalimpong in 1921. Jane is one of many hundreds of descendants now spread throughout New Zealand. Most grew up with little or no knowledge of their parent's Indian heritage. The story of interracial relationships, institutionalisation - and the sense of abandonment that often resulted - was rarely spoken of. But since the 1980s increasing numbers have been researching their hidden histories. In the process, extraordinary personal stories and many fabulous photographs have come to light. Jane McCabe here tells this compelling and little-known New Zealand story, in pictures.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Anglo-Indians > New Zealand > History > 20th century
• Anglo-Indians > New Zealand > Pictorial works
• Immigrants > New Zealand > Pictorial works
• Plantation owners > Family relationships > History > India > 20th century
• Tea plantations > Social aspects > History > India > 20th century
• Miscegenation > India > History > 20th century
• Anglo-Indians
• Emigration and immigration
• Immigrants
• Miscegenation
• Race relations
• India > Race relations > History > 20th century
• Kālimpong (India) > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
• New Zealand > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
• India
• India > Kālimpong
• New Zealand

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-1272

ISBN

• 9781988592367
• 1988592364

OCLC

1139391963

Author

McCabe, Jane, author.

Title

Kalimpong kids : the New Zealand story, in pictures / Jane McCabe.

Publisher

Dunedin, New Zealand : Otago University Press, 2020.

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 21-1272