Race, religion, and law in colonial India : trials of an interracial family
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Race, religion, and law in colonial India : trials of an interracial family
(Cambridge studies in Indian history and society, 19)
Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Summary: "Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference in the British encounter with Indian society"--Provided by publisher
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index
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Description
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 the local community. A family dispute resulted in a landmark court case, Abraham v. Abraham. Chandra Mallampalli uses this case to examine the lives of those involved, and shows that far from being products of a 'civilizing mission' who embraced the ways of Englishmen, the Abrahams were ultimately - when faced with the strictures of the colonial legal system - obliged to contend with hierarchy and racial difference.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Remembering family
- 2. Embodying 'Dora-hood': the brothers and their business
- 3. A crisis of trust: sedition and the sale of arms in Kurnool
- 4. Letters from Cambridge
- 5. The path to litigation
- 6. Litigating gender and race: Charlotte sues at Bellary
- 7. Francis appeals: the case for continuity
- 8. Choice, identity, and law: the decision of London's Privy Council.
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