000			01675 a2200181 4500
020			_a9781780768793
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a305.891411 _bAn23r
100			_aAnderson, Valerie
245			_aRace and power in British India _bAnglo-Indians, class and identity in the nineteenth century _cValerie Anderson
260			_bI. B. Tauris _c2015 _aLondon
300			_axv, 324p
520			_aBy the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and dangerous by Edmund Burke in the late 1700s. Seeking to go beyond the statutes and ceremony, and show the reality of the interactions between rulers and ruled on a local level, this book looks at one of the most interesting phenomena of British India - the 'Eurasians'. The adventurers of the early years of Indian occupation arrived alone, and in taking 'native' mistresses and wives, created a race of administrators who were 'others' to both the native population and the British ruling class. These Anglo-Indian people existed in the zone between the colonizer and the colonized, and their history provides a wonderfully rich source for understanding Indian social history, race and colonial hegemony.
650			_aAnglo-Indians -- India -- History -- 19th century
650			_aAnglo-Indians -- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century
942			_cBK
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