Deprovincializing racial capitalism: John Crawfurd and settler colonialism in India

• Main Author: INCE, Onur Ulas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: racial capitalism; settler colonialism; British empire; liberalism; India; John Crawfurd; Asian Studies; Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3438; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4695/viewcontent/Ince_2021_Deprovincializing_Racial_Capitalism.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent literature on racial capitalism has overwhelmingly focused on the Atlantic settler-slave formation, sidelining the history of European imperialism in Asia. This article addresses this blind spot by recovering the aborted project of British settler colonialism in India through the writings of...