1st Edition
Poor Relations The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
By Christopher J. Hawes
Copyright 1996
244 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration of government although barred in the main from higher office. The ambition of their educated... Read more
Chapter 1 British Men, Indian Women, Eurasian Children; Chapter 2 Charity and Children in Care; Chapter 3 Eurasian Employment; Chapter 4 Eurasians in the Official Eye; Chapter 5 Towards a Reluctant Community; Chapter 6 Eurasians Up Country and in the Indian States; Chapter 7 The Eurasian Struggle for Self Advancement; Chapter 8 Political Protest;
Biography
Hawes, Christopher J.
