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Race and Power in British India
Valerie Anderson
其他書名
Anglo-Indians, Class and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015-06-09
主題History / Modern / 19th CenturyHistory / Asia / South / GeneralHistory / Modern / GeneralHistory / Military / Revolutions & Wars of IndependencePolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Nationalism & PatriotismHistory / Europe / Great Britain / General
ISBN08577399809780857739988
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GaWmDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋By the nineteenth century the British had ruled India for over a hundred years, and had consolidated their power over the sub-continent. Until 1858, when Queen Victoria assumed sovereignty following the Indian Rebellion, the country was run by the East India Company - by this time a hybrid of state and commercial enterprises and eloquently and fiercely attacked as intrinsically immoral and dangerous by Edmund Burke in the late 1700s. Seeking to go beyond the statutes and ceremony, and show the reality of the interactions between rulers and ruled on a local level, this book looks at one of the most interesting phenomena of British India - the 'Eurasians'. The adventurers of the early years of Indian occupation arrived alone, and in taking 'native' mistresses and wives, created a race of administrators who were 'others' to both the native population and the British ruling class. These Anglo-Indian people existed in the zone between the colonizer and the colonized, and their history provides a wonderfully rich source for understanding Indian social history, race and colonial hegemony.