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The Meaning of White - Race, Class, and the 'Domiciled Community' in British India 1858-1930 (Hardcover)
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The Meaning of White - Race, Class, and the 'Domiciled Community' in British India 1858-1930 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was
complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial
ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness was never taken as
self-evident. It was constantly called into question and its
boundaries were disciplined and policed through socio-cultural and
institutional practices.
Only those whites with social status, cultural refinement, and the
right level of education were able to command the respect and awe
of colonized subjects. Among those who straddled the boundaries of
whiteness were the 'domiciled community', made up of mixed-descent
'Eurasians' and racially unmixed 'Domiciled Europeans', both of
whom lived in India on a permanent basis. Members of this
community, or those who were categorized as such under the Raj,
unwittingly rendered the meaning of whiteness ambiguous in
fundamental ways.
The colonial authorities quickly identified the domiciled community
as a particularly malign source of political instability and social
disorder, and were constantly urged to furnish various
institutional measures - predominantly philanthropic and
educational by character - that specifically targeted its degraded
conditions. The Meaning of White reveals the precise ways in which
the existence of this community was identified as a problem (the
'Eurasian Question') and examines the deeper historical meanings of
this categorization. Dr Mizutani demystifies the ideology of
whiteness, situating it within the concrete social realities of
colonial history.
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