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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction
1. Eurasian ‘Othering
2. Hidden Agendas
3. Population Statistics
4. Europeans and Miscegenation
5. Law and Marriage
6. Employability
7. Women’s Work
8. Eurasians and the Military
9. Eurasians and the Railways
10. Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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