Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 'The Chinaman Had No Fault Except That They Were Chinese': An Indian View of Australia in 1888
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Margaret Allen looks at the 1893 publication, Reminiscences, English and Australasian: Being an Account of a Visit to England, Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Ceylon, in which N. L. Doss records the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the Australian colonies at the time of his visit. 'Doss's account of his travels in the Australian colonies in 1888 reveals an Indian view of the White Australian project at the point of its inception. Doss participates in the racialised hierarchies of the contemporary empire, locating himself as an Aryan like the English and superior to the Chinese and to the Indigienous peoples. Nevertheless, his ambivalence towards the racialist politics of the Australian colonies emerges at a number of crucial points in his text.' (p.215)

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    y separately published work icon Australia and India : Interconnections : Identity, Representation, Belonging S. K. Sareen (editor), New Delhi : Mantra Books , 2006 Z1428175 2006 anthology criticism 'Interconnections is a collection of twenty-eight refereed essays from the second International Conference of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA) held in January 2004 in New Delhi ... These essays explore the dynamics of crosscultural activity, intercultural interaction and interconnections.' - Back cover. New Delhi : Mantra Books , 2006 pg. 202-217
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