Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780700704255)

The sixty years between 1773 and 1833 determined British paramountcy in India. Those years were formative too for British Eurasians. By the 1820s Eurasians were an identifiable and vocal community of significant numbers particularly in the main Presidency towns. They were valuable to the administration of government although barred in the main from higher office. The ambition of their educated elite was to be accepted as British subjects, not to be treated as native Indians, an ambition which was finally rejected in the 1830s.

Author: Christopher J. Hawes
ISBN-10: 0700704256
ISBN-13: 9780700704255
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 07/04/1996
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.74h x 6.56w x 0.94d