Patronage and Politics in the Victorian Empire: The Personal Governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore)
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Chapter 4: The Politics of Accommodation in Fiji, 1875–1882

85

Induction

87

The Kai Colo War

92

Fijian Administration: Orthodoxy and its Limitations

95

Land and Labour

102

High Commissioner for the Western Pacific

106

Chapter 5: The Limits of Influence: New Zealand, 1880–1882

121

Maori Lands

123

Constitutional Issues

134

Chapter 6: Bureaucracy and Clientage: Ceylon, 1883–1890

141

Sinhalese and the Ceylon Civil Service

142

Funding and Improving Infrastructure

157

Chapter 7: A Career Extended: Action and Influence from Retirement

163

Conclusion: Politics and Loyalties in Personal Administration

173

Gordon and the Historians

173

A Patron-Client System and its Limitations

185

Notes

201

References

229

Illustration Credits

245

Index

247