Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia: Race, Boundary Making and Communal Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780367594084 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 340 str.

Uther Charlton-Stevens

Opis

The book analyses the processes of ethnic group formation and political organisation, beginning with petitions to the East India Company state, through the Raj’s constitutional communalism, to constitution-making for the new India. It details how Anglo-Indians sought to preserve protected areas of state and railway employment.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.