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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Caplan, Lionel. Children of colonialism. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001 (OCoLC)606634131 Online version: Caplan, Lionel. Children of colonialism. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2001 (OCoLC)607913336 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lionel Caplan |
| ISBN: | 1859735312 9781859735312 1859736327 9781859736326 |
| OCLC Number: | 47658781 |
| Description: | x, 261 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 -- 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 -- Guarding Boundaries--Crossing Boundaries -- Erecting Boundaries -- Threatening Boundaries -- Crossing Boundaries: Colonial Censuses -- Crossing Boundaries: Out-marriages -- Contemporary Crossings -- Paradoxes of Belonging -- The Paradox of British Policies -- Anglo-Indian Rhetorics of Belonging -- Manifestations of 'Community' -- Contemporary Associational Politics -- The Politics of Philanthropy -- The Spirit of Emigration -- Colonial Migrations -- Post-Independence Migrations -- Planning Emigration -- Failed Emigrants -- The Consequences of Emigration -- Resisting Emigration -- 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 -- The Practice of Culture -- Emblematic Lifeways -- Depicting Anglo-Indian Lifeways -- Dress: Changing Gear -- Food: Custards and Curries -- Making and Celebrating Marriages. |
| Responsibility: | Lionel Caplan. |
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'Lionel Caplan has produced a splendid study, on a significant subject long overdue. What makes the work more useful is its solid base of fresh empirical data, together with its critical and sophisticated treatment of conceptual and theoretical issues. I commend this book to scholars and general readers alike.'Robert Eric Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin at Madison'An impressive and empathetic analysis of the Anglo-Indian community in India today, which is recommended not only for scholars, but for general readers interested in ethnicity and sociology.'Chowkidar'An excellent analysis of how the boundaries between Europeans, Anglo-Indians and Indians were guarded ... This book should appeal to South Asian specialists and post-colonial theorists.'Times Higher Education Supplement 'Timely and broad in perspective.'The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Read more...
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- Anglo-Indians -- History.
- Anglo-Indians -- Foreign influences.
- Chennai (India) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Minderheden.
- Euro-aziatisch.
- Kolonialisme.
- Postkolonialismus.
- Angloinder.
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