Poor Relations
Subtitle: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: July 4, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780700704255
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Human rights; Multicultural studies; Social history; Social issues; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Colonies And Colonization; India - History; History; Sociology; India; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Minority Studies - General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Asia - India & South Asia
First sentence: Once increasing numbers of young unmarried British males began to arrive in India from the start of the seventeenth century a mixed race population of British and Indian descent, small at first but later to grow rapidly, was inevitable.