Tag: India

  • Schools for European and Eurasian children in India: Making of the official policy in colonial India and its contemporary significance Policy Futures in Education Volume 13, Number 3 (April 2015) pages 315-327 DOI: 10.1177/1478210315569040 Heeral Chhabra, M.Phil Research Scholar Department of History University of Delhi, India The history of education in India has been looked…

  • Racial Passing and the Raj American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting New York, New York 2015-01-02 through 2015-01-05 Saturday, 2015-01-03, 15:10 EST (Local Time) Park Suite 3 (Sheraton New York) Uther Charlton-Stevens Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Racial passing is a subject that has attracted much attention in the historiography of the Americas, as well…

  • Clean comic standing The Asian Age 2014-12-07 Vishav Having performed for some well-known names including US President Barack Obama, Indian-Japanese comedian Dan Nainan comes to India with some clean comedy He has performed for the US President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Steve Wozniak and many others. He has made them all roll with…

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family by Chandra Mallampalli (review) [Epstein] Victorian Studies Volume 56, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 519-520 DOI: 10.1353/vic.2014.0064 James Epstein, Distinguished Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Mallampalli, Chandra, Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family (Cambridge, New…

  • Empire, Race, and the Debate over the Indian Marriage Market in Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800) Eighteenth-Century Fiction Volume 26, Number 3, Spring 2014 pages 427-454 DOI: 10.1353/ecf.2014.0004 John C. Leffel, Assistant Professor of English State University of New York, Cortland In the late eighteenth century, East India Company stations were characterized as…

  • An unmanageable Commodity to have imported into this white Country: Growing up Mixed-Race in India and Scotland, 1780-1830 Institute of Historical Research Senate House (Room 103) Malet Street London WC1E 7HU Tuesday, 2014-01-14, 17:15-19:15Z Ellen Filor University College London Seminar Series: Life-Cycles (Spring Term 2014) This seminar series will address issues relating to the life-cycle…

  • INDIGO: An Exhibit of Textiles Gandhi Memorial Center 4748 Western Avenue Bethesda, Maryland, 20816 Washington, D.C. Phone: 301-320-6871 Opening Reception: Saturday, 2013-11-16, 14:00-16:00 EST (Local Time) Inaugural Remarks at 14:30 EST INDIGO, an exhibition of textiles by Laura Kina and Shelly Jyoti will be inaugurated at the Gandhi Memorial Center in cooperation with the Embassy…

  • “Lines of the Nation” radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the…

  • Public genealogies: Documents, bodies and nations in Anglo-Indian railway family histories Contributions to Indian Sociology Volume 35, Number 3 (October 2001) pages 355-388 DOI: 10.1177/006996670103500303 Laura Bear Department of Anthropology The London School of Economics This article argues for an approach to archives and documents that focusses on their material effects. It traces the impact…

  • Quiting India: the Anglo-Indian Culture of Migration sites: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Volume 4, Number 2 (2007) pages 32-56 DOI: 10.11157/sites-vol4iss2id73 Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University In my work with the Anglo-Indians in Calcutta I was reminded of Caplan’s (1995) comment that Anglo-Indians had a ‘culture of emigration’,…