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Author Carton, Adrian

Title Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India : Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
Published Hoboken : Taylor & amp ; Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (161 pages)
Series Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Portuguese legacies; 2 Race and reform; 3 Contested colonialisms; 4 French complexions; 5 Race and citizenship; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires. In the context of increasing British power, the book looks at the Anglo-French tensions of the eighteenth century to consider the relationship between modernity and race-making. Arguing that different forms of modernity produced divergent categories of hybridity, i
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203121023
0203121023