Marginal Europeans in Colonial India: 1860-1920
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8186017586, 9788186017586
Length
x+306p., Tables; Index; 21cm.
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Even as Victorian England sought means and methods to 'manage' its poor through new laws, the colonial rulers of India found the European poor in India a threat to the myth of superiority and homogeneity they were busy building up for the British ruling class.This study focuses on this particular section of European settlers in India, referred to in contemporary official papers as the 'low Europeans' or 'mean whites'; which loosely meant a ...