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Race and Power in British India - Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Race and Power in British India - Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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By 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.
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