| Description |
x, 261 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- Colonial Sex and the Creation of a Mixed-race Population -- The Colonial Science of Racial Hybrids -- Anglo-Indians and the Blurring of Categorical Divides -- Theorizing the Colonial and Postcolonial -- Creolized Cultures, Bounded Identities -- Researching Anglo-India -- 2. Anglo-Indians in Madras -- The Evolution of an Anglo-Indian Population in Madras -- The Emergence of Class Divisions -- The Education of Anglo-Indians -- Anglo-Indian Settlement in Madras -- 3. Guarding Boundaries - Crossing Boundaries -- Erecting Boundaries -- Threatening Boundaries -- Crossing Boundaries: Colonial Censuses -- Crossing Boundaries: Out-marriages -- Contemporary Crossings -- 4. Paradoxes of Belonging -- The Paradox of British Policies -- Anglo-Indian Rhetorics of Belonging -- Manifestations of 'Community' -- Contemporary Associational Politics -- The Politics of Philanthropy -- 5. The Spirit of Emigration -- Colonial Migrations -- Post-Independence Migrations -- Planning Emigration -- Failed Emigrants -- The Consequences of Emigration -- Resisting Emigration -- 6. Close Families and Matrifocal Households -- The Composition of Households -- Close Families -- Boarding Schools and Families -- Failed Families -- Family and Workplace -- Family Narratives -- Women in the Family -- 7. The Practice of Culture -- Emblematic Lifeways -- Depicting Anglo-Indian Lifeways -- Dress: Changing Gear -- Food: Custards and Curries -- Making and Celebrating Marriages -- 8. Conclusion |
| Summary |
The author presents an historicized ethnography of the contemporary lives of Anglo-Indians as they relate both to the colonial past and to conditions in the present. In particular, he shows that features which theorists assoicate with the postcolonial present - blurred boundaries, multiple identities, creolized cultures - have been part of the colonial past as well. Presenting an argument against theoretically essentialized notions of culture, hybridity and postcoloniality, this book contributes to debates in cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology and sociology, as well as historical studies of colonialism, 'mixed race' populations and cosmopolitan identities. -- book cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anglo-Indians -- History.
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Anglo-Indians -- Foreign influences.
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| SUBJECT |
Chennai (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073827 -- Social conditions -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008860
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| LC no. |
2001004450 |
| ISBN |
1859735312 Cloth |
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