{"id":15606,"date":"2011-08-13T20:04:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15606"},"modified":"2011-08-13T20:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:05:23","slug":"children-of-colonialism-anglo-indians-in-a-postcolonial-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15606","title":{"rendered":"Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/childrenofcolonialism\" target=\"_blank\">Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Berg Publishers (an imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\" target=\"_blank\">Macmillan<\/a>)<br \/>\nOctober 2001<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/staff\/staff36037.php\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Caplan<\/a><\/strong>, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate<br \/>\nSchool of Oriental and African Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of London<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/childrenofcolonialism\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9781859735312.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary \u2018mixed-race\u2019 populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious scholarly attention because they not only challenge notions of a rigid divide between colonizer and colonized, but beg a host of questions about continuities and transformations in the postcolonial world.<\/p>\n<p>This book concerns one such group, the Eurasians of India, or Anglo-Indians as they came to be designated. Caplan presents an historicized ethnography of their contemporary lives as these relate both to the colonial past and to conditions in the present. In particular, he forcefully shows that features which theorists associate with the postcolonial present\u2014blurred boundaries, multiple identities, creolized cultures\u2014have been part of the colonial past as well. Presenting a powerful argument against theoretically essentialized notions of culture, hybridity and postcoloniality, this book is a much-needed contribution to recent debates in cultural studies, literary theory, anthropology, sociology as well as historical studies of colonialism, \u2018mixed-race\u2019 populations and cosmopolitan identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,16,11,459,125,8,17,394],"tags":[1351,7187,514],"class_list":["post-15606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-books","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-socialscience","tag-india","tag-lionel-caplan","tag-macmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}