Anglo-India and the end of empire /

Notwithstanding Empire's faults, the earlier, more cosmopolitan period of East India Company rule saw abundant 'interracial' sex and occasional marriage, alongside greater cultural openness and exchange. The result was a large and growing 'mixed-race' community, known by the...

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Charlton-Stevens, Uther
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Zusammenfassung:
Notwithstanding Empire's faults, the earlier, more cosmopolitan period of East India Company rule saw abundant 'interracial' sex and occasional marriage, alongside greater cultural openness and exchange. The result was a large and growing 'mixed-race' community, known by the early twentieth century as Anglo-Indians. Independence was profoundly unsettling to those destined to become minorities in the new nation, and the Anglo-Indians were no exception. This account looks at the dramatic end of British rule in India through Anglo-Indian eyes, a perspective that is neither colonial apologia nor nationalist polemic, and a history of a community's struggle to be heard as Empire waned in India, with echoes for all those of mixed heritage.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvii, 387 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-768357-6
0-19-767651-0
Schlagworte:
Anglo-Indians.
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