The meaning of white : race, class, and the 'domiciled community' in British India 1858-1930 /
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...
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. India's 'domiciled community': the ambivalence of whiteness under the British Raj
- British prestige and fears of colonial degeneration
- The origins and emergence of the 'domiciled community'
- The 'Eurasian question': the domiciled poor and urban social control
- 'European schools': illiteracy, unemployment, and educational uplifting
- Towards a solution to the Eurasian question: child removal and juvenile emigration
- Disputing the domiciliary divide: civil-service employment and the claim for equivalence
- 1 British Prestige and Fears of Colonial Degeneration 14
- 1 Introduction 14
- 2 Two faces of colonial racism: prestige and degeneration 15
- 3 Colonials as personifications of prestige 18
- 4 Bourgeois selves and their struggles against degeneration 27
- 5 Conclusion 45
- 2 The Origins and Emergence of the 'Domiciled Community' 48
- 1 Introduction 48
- 2 'Poor whites': their origins, lives, and perceived anomalies 49
- 3 The domiciled community: its emergence and categorization 59
- 4 Conclusion 76
- 3 The 'Eurasian Question': The Domiciled Poor and Urban Social Control 78
- 1 Introduction 78
- 2 Imperialism and the ambivalence of civilizing 79
- 3 Colonial Calcutta and Pauperism Commissions 83
- 4 European pauperism diagnosed: alleged symptoms and suggested remedies 94
- 5 Disciplinarian schemes and quests for alternative spaces 103
- 6 Conclusion 110
- 4 'European Schools': Illiteracy, Unemployment, and Educational Uplifting 116
- 1 Introduction 116
- 2 'European education': institutional evolution and ideological foundations 117
- 3 Educational inclusion and its cultural and class ambiguities 128
- 4 Conclusion 135
- 5 Towards a Solution to the Eurasian Question: Child Removal and Juvenile Emigration 137
- 1 Introduction 137
- 2 St Andrew's Colonial Homes at Kalimpong: objectives and historical significance 138
- 3 Domesticity and colonial child removal 146
- 4 Labouring back into the Empire: domestic discipline and vocational training160
- 5 The limits to 'child-saving: India and its place within the British Empire 176
- 6 Conclusion 178
- 6 Disputing the Domiciliary Divide: Civil-Service Employment and the Claim for Equivalence 181
- 1 Introduction 181
- 2 Criteria for commanding positions: the historical background 182
- 3 The associations of the domiciled community 186
- 4 Fitness to rule: 'home-born' versus domiciled candidates194
- 5 'Britishness' and its discontents: confrontations with the Viceroy 201
- 6 Constitutional reform and the 'minoritarian' claim for legal protection 209
- 7 Conclusion 218