Imperialism as Diaspora
：Race, Sexuality, and History in Anglo-India
( Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines )
Publication subTitle ：Race, Sexuality, and History in Anglo-India
Publication series ：Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
Author： Ralph Crane; Radhika Mohanram
Publisher： Liverpool University Press
Publication year： 2013
E-ISBN: 9781781385630
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781846318962
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781846318962
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Language： ENG
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Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Such postcolonial interpretations that focus on single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—during the Raj. Imperialism as Diaspora reconsiders the urgencies, governing principles, and modes of being of the Anglo-Indians by approaching Britain’s imperial relationship with India from new, interdisciplinary directions. Focussing on the years between the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and Independence in 1947—the period of
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