Children of Colonialism
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Anglo-Indian Association
Anglo-Indian Children
Anglo-Indian Community
Anglo-Indian Families
Anglo-Indian Leader
Anglo-Indian Men
Anglo-Indian Population
Anglo-Indian Schools
Anglo-Indian Women
Anglo-Indian's history
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Colonial Administration
colonial legacy in India
Colonialism
Common Language
creolised cultures
Creolized cultures
cultural hybridity
Curd Rice
Domiciled Community
Domiciled European
Early Nineteenth Century Europe
East India Club
East Indies
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ethnographic analysis
Fireman
India's Eurasians education
Madras Presidency
mixed-race communities
Mixed-race population
postcolonial identity
Religious Congregations
social boundaries
South Indian City
St Patrick's Church
St Patrick’s Church
Tamil Nadu
Water Men
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781859736326
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary ‘mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious scholarly attention because they not only challenge notions of a rigid divide between colonizer and colonized, but beg a host of questions about continuities and transformations in the postcolonial world. This book concerns one such group, the Eurasians of India, or Anglo-Indians as they came to be designated. Caplan presents an historicized ethnography of their contemporary lives as these relate both to the colonial past and to conditions in the present. In particular, he forcefully shows that features which theorists associate with the postcolonial present — blurred boundaries, multiple identities, creolized cultures — have been part of the colonial past as well. Presenting a powerful argument against theoretically essentialized notions of culture, hybridity and postcoloniality, this book is a much-needed contribution to recent debates in cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology, sociology as well as historical studies of colonialism, ‘mixed-race' populations and cosmopolitan identities.
Lionel Caplan is Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
