The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma (Record no. 528494)
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| Personal name | Ren, Chao |
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| Title | The spectre of Ma Phyu? Loyalty, competence, and the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Extent | 58(2), Mar, 2024: p.536-562 |
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| Summary, etc | This article explores the spatial dynamics of imperial administration in colonial Burma through the lens of gender, bureaucracy, and frontier. Focusing on the story of Hugh Ernest McColl, a British administrative officer in Burma who struggled for promotion as a result of his marriage to a Burmese woman, the article sheds light on the spatial dynamics regarding loyalty, competence, and political priorities in the imperial administration of frontiers. Such spatial dynamics were most clearly manifested in the diverging attitudes between central authorities and local governments towards McColl’s case. Drawing on archival sources and secondary literature that contextualize McColl’s case within the broader textures of colonial governance, this article argues that McColl’s case reveals the internal contradiction of the imperial administration, which saw a constant tension between the ideological imperatives of control and the practical demands of how to control. McColl’s story is therefore a story of broader significance—of the inherent structural contradiction of colonial rule and its inability to overcome it.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/spectre-of-ma-phyu-loyalty-competence-and-the-spatial-dynamics-of-imperial-administration-in-colonial-burma/49FC8DC42A4D06DAE971FF9A48C08922 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Burma, Frontier, Gender, Bureaucracy, Language. |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-12-10 | 58(2), Mar, 2024: p.536-562 | AR133886 | 2024-12-10 | Articles |