Colonial planning drew comparative lessons across Australia, Caribbean, and India

Evidence

These alternative visions conceive differently of where the Inlandsche kinderen would best fit in the Indies landscape. But they also carve out alternative senses of what roles they might play in a modernizing colony, what sentiments might guide them, what kinds of political subjects they might become. … In turning to Australia, the Caribbean, and India, authorities reviewed experiments that were known to have gone dangerously awry or to have met with success. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 652

Categorization

• XREF: Comparative colonial governance echoes the trans-imperial knowledge flows discussed in colonial studies literature on ‘imperial networks.’