Low and licentious Europeans : race, class and 'white subalternity' in colonial India / by Harald Fischer-Tine
By: Fischer-Tine, Harald [Author].
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TextPublisher: New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan Pvt. Ltd., 2009.Description: xiv, 437p.: ill.; 22.5 cm.ISBN: 9788125037019.Subject(s): History -- India -- 1785-1947 | History | Period of British ruleDDC classification: 954.03 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Introduction -- Difficult differences: British rule in India between material constraints and imperial ideologies -- Flotsam and Jetsam of the empire: European seamen and spaces of disease and disorder in colonial Calcutta -- Class prejudice European 'Loaferism' and the workhouse system in colonial India -- White women degrading themselves to the lowest depths: European prostitutes and double transgression -- Hierarchies of crime and punishment: European convicts and the racial dividend -- Reclaiming savages in 'Darkest England' and 'Darkest India': the salvation army as transnational agent of the civilising mission
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