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Anglo-India and the end of empire / Uther Charlton-Stevens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charlton-Stevens, Uther, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anglo-Indians.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 387 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Notwithstanding Empire's faults, 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. Independence was profoundly unsettling to those destined to become minorities in the new nation, and the Anglo-Indians were no exception. This 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, and a history of a community's struggle to be heard as Empire waned in India, with echoes for all those of mixed heritage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-768357-6
- 0-19-767651-0
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