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Poor Relations - The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Poor Relations - The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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As early as the 1830s, Eurasians (later called Anglo-Indians) of
British birth already exceeded the number of British citizens in
colonial India. At the time of India's independence they
outnumbered all British residents. Yet within the development of
this community there were problems to be faced (social, economic
and attitudinal), as well as questions which its rise posed to
British authority. Sometimes these were hypothetical: could, for
instance, a large mixed-race population of British descent cause
political danger to British interests in India as had the colonists
of America? Other questions raised by a fast-growing mixed-race
population which identified with its British fathers were
practical: how should they be educated and employed? And were they
to be treated as British or Indians?;The 60 years between 1773 and
1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were
formative, too, for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were
an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers,
particularly in the main presidency towns. They were valuable to
the administration of government although barred in the main from
the higher office. The ambition of their educ
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