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  • 10 - Decolonization and Its Aftermath

  • from Part iii - Southeast Asia: Colonial Legacies and Emerging Communities
  • Edited by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
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    11 August 2023
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    15 June 2023, pp 186-204

  • Summary

    This chapter examines the Baghdadi network in British Asia and its identity crisis during decolonization with a focus on Southeast Asia and the survival of the Singapore community in particular. The chapter argues that through the colonization process, the transient identity of the Baghdadi Jewish diasporic communities was largely cemented as an anglicized one. However, following decolonization, the class divide within the communities was made all the more obvious as the anglicized elites emigrated to English-speaking countries while leaving the poor behind, as noted in Singapore.

  • 5 - Jewish Communities in the Indian Subcontinent

  • from Part ii - South Asia: Identity and Culture in British and Independent India
  • Edited by Rotem Kowner, University of Haifa, Israel
  • Book:
    Jewish Communities in Modern Asia
    Published online:
    11 August 2023
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    15 June 2023, pp 91-112

  • Summary

    This chapter gives an overview of the four different Jewish groups that have inhabited the Indian subcontinent during the modern era: the Cochin Jews in southwest India; Bene Israel; the Paradesi Jews; and the Baghdadi Jews. The chapter focuses on their encounter with modernization and their subsequent identity formation. It suggests that the main conflict these Jews have faced, both as a group and as individuals, was how to reconcile between Indian nationalism and Zionism.

  • The Yunnan–Burma railway, 1860s–1940s: Imagining, planning and rejecting a railway that was never built

  • Yin Cao
  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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    24 July 2023, pp. 298-315
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    June 2023
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  • In the late nineteenth century, British commercial interests in Asia and back home visualised a railway connecting British Burma with inland China, which they saw as a vast unexplored market. British engineers and adventurers were then employed by the commercial bodies to investigate the economy and geography of Yunnan and Upper Burma for the project. The railway was eventually rejected by the British as being unviable and unprofitable. The colonial knowledge created by these missions (in the form of travelogues, survey reports, interviews and studies) was later interpreted by Chinese nationalists as evidence of Britain's ambitions to colonise southwest China in 1905 (the Russo-Japanese War) and 1927 (the Northern Expedition) when the Chinese nation was in deep crisis. But the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War led the Chinese Nationalist government to reconsider the Yunnan–Burma railway as necessary infrastructure for obtaining foreign supplies to save the nation. The colonial knowledge produced by British explorers and merchants earlier was reinterpreted by the Nationalists to try to persuade the British authorities to construct the Burma section of the railway. By tracing the history of this failed project, this article argues that nationalist understandings of colonial infrastructure were far from fixed and consistent. It recounts the circulation of colonial knowledge on the Yunnan–Burma railway from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, showing how different nationalist agents in Asia interpreted and reinterpreted colonial infrastructure at various critical periods.

  • SEA volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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    08 August 2023, pp. b1-b2
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    June 2023
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  • The flower, then the sword: The militarisation of Burma's most beautiful book

  • Alexandra Kaloyanides
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    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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    11 July 2023, pp. 175-199
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    June 2023
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  • This article examines the highly ornamented Burmese manuscript known as the Kammavāca to understand what its luxurious materials and distinctive illustrations reveal about Buddhist practice and politics in Burma's last kingdom, the Konbaung dynasty (1752–1885). This article shows that the illustrations on Kammavāca manuscripts transformed during the Konbaung dynasty to feature new sword-wielding guardians. This article argues that this militarisation was part of the Burmese kingdom's increasing reliance on ritual practices and religious materials to fortify a kingdom at war with the British and threatened by ethnic divisions.

  • SEA volume 54 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

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    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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    08 August 2023, pp. f1-f4
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  • Editorial Foreword

  • Maitrii Aung-Thwin
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    Journal of Southeast Asian Studies / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / June 2023
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    08 August 2023, pp. 173-174
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