How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, both of whom married Eurasian women, became wealthy as distillers in ...
Chandra Mallampalli has written a masterful book that explores new scholarly territory at the interstices of legal, political, religious and cultural history. His multi-faceted approach to understanding Indian Christian marginality in Colonial South India yields results that have eluded less comprehensive studies. Mining primary and secondary literatures from a wide variety of archives and disciplines. Mallampalli has produced a groundbreaking ...