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Race and Power in British India
Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Introduction to British India
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.
The Phenomenon of Eurasians
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.
Social and Colonial Significance
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.
