1st Edition
Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism
By Uther Charlton-Stevens
Copyright 2018
340 Pages
by
Routledge
340 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
340 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Anglo-Indians are a mixed-race, Christian and Anglophone minority community which arose in South Asia during the long period of European colonialism. An often neglected part of the British Raj, their presence complicates the traditional binary through which British imperialism is viewed – of ruler and ruled, coloniser and colonised. The book analyses the processes of ethnic group formation... Read more
Introduction
I. East Indians
II. The ‘Eurasian Problem’
III. Becoming Anglo-Indians
IV. Making a Minority
V. Escapisms of Empire
VI. Constituting the Nation
Epilogue
Biography
Uther Charlton-Stevens is Professor at the Institute of World Economy and Finance at Volgograd State University, Russia. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britian and Ireland.
