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AbstractTo this day, the history of indigenous orphans in colonial India remains surprisingly understudied. Unlike the orphans of Britain or European and Eurasian orphans in the colony, who have been widely documented, Indian orphans are largely absent in the existing historiography. This article argues that a study of "native" orphans in India helps us transcend the binary of state power and poor children that has hitherto structured the limited extant research on child "rescue" in colonial India. The essay further argues that by shifting the gaze away from the state, we can vividly see how non-state actors juxtaposed labour and education. I assert that the deployment of child labour by these actors, in their endeavour to educate and make orphans self-sufficient, did not always follow the profitable trajectory of the state-led formal labour regime (seen in the Indian indenture system or early nineteenth-century prison labour). It was often couched in terms of charity and philanthropy and exhibited a convergence of moral and economic concerns.

Part 1: Sicilian defense -- Building blocks -- The pitch -- The right questions -- "What matters to me is winning" -- The beamers -- Hosed -- Money talks -- Part 2: Bad bishop -- If you build it -- The widget wars -- Crash -- The nut house coup -- Buttoned-up -- The sword -- Ambition's debt -- Part 3: Doubled rooks -- Igor -- Use the force -- Crime in progress -- Guerrillas -- World domination -- Blindsided -- Outlaws -- And all I got was a t-shirt -- Conclusion: the floor.

Solon's cryptic injunction : "Call no man happy until dead" -- A mourning happiness : the Athenian funeral oration -- Difficult happiness : the case of tragedy -- Aristotle's hermeneutic of happiness : the first forgetting -- The trial narrative in Richardson's Pamela : suspending the hermeneutic of happiness -- Effects of the trial narrative on the concept of happiness -- Marriage plot -- The tragedies of sentimentalism -- Kantian ethics and the discourses of modernity -- Happiness in revolution : erasing the political concept of happiness

Contributed articles with reference to India

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