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Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hardcover)
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Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hardcover)
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The standard image of the Raj is of an aloof, pampered and
prejudiced British elite lording it over an oppressed and hostile
Indian subject population. Like most caricatures, this obscures as
much truth as it reveals. The British had not always been so aloof.
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. Notwithstanding its faults, Empire could
never have been maintained without the active, sometimes
enthusiastic, support of many colonial subjects. These included
Indian elites, professionals, civil servants, businesspeople and
minority groups of all kinds, who flourished under the patronage of
the imperial state, and could be used in a 'divide and rule'
strategy to prolong colonial rule. Independence was profoundly
unsettling to those destined to become minorities in the new
nation, and the Anglo-Indians were no exception. This refreshing
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. Its history resonates strikingly with the
complex identity debates of the twenty-first century.
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