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The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the 'Domiciled Community' in British India 1858-1930: Oxford Historical Monographs

Autor Satoshi Mizutani
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2011
From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness was never taken as self-evident. It was constantly called into question and its boundaries were disciplined and policed through socio-cultural and institutional practices. Only those whites with social status, cultural refinement, and the right level of education were able to command the respect and awe of colonized subjects. Among those who straddled the boundaries of whiteness were the 'domiciled community', made up of mixed-descent 'Eurasians' and racially unmixed 'Domiciled Europeans', both of whom lived in India on a permanent basis. Members of this community, or those who were categorized as such under the Raj, unwittingly rendered the meaning of whiteness ambiguous in fundamental ways. The colonial authorities quickly identified the domiciled community as a particularly malign source of political instability and social disorder, and were constantly urged to furnish various institutional measures - predominantly philanthropic and educational by character - that specifically targeted its degraded conditions. The Meaning of White reveals the precise ways in which the existence of this community was identified as a problem (the 'Eurasian Question') and examines the deeper historical meanings of this categorization. Dr Mizutani demystifies the ideology of whiteness, situating it within the concrete social realities of colonial history.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199697700
ISBN-10: 0199697701
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 1 map & 7 black and white images
Dimensiuni: 140 x 218 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Historical Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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The Meaning of White makes a meaningful contribution to our understanding of the politics of race in late colonial India. ... Overall, however, Mizutani has produced a relevant and thought-provoking study of an insufficiently studied group.
an enviable achievement and a valuable contribution to our understanding of the politics of race and class in colonial India

Notă biografică

Satoshi Mizutani was educated at Sophia University (Japan), the University of Warwick, and St. Antony's College, Oxford before obtaining a DPhil from the History Faculty at Oxford.

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