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028			_a: Raghav Books Pvt Ltd _b: A-184, A, nand Gram, Ghaziabad, UP. _c: 1995 _d: 30/12/2024
082			_a305.5 TIN
100			_aTine, Harald Fischer.
245			_a Low and Licentious Europeans _b : race class and ' white subalternity' in colonial India. _c/ Harald Fischer Tine.
260			_aHyderabad _b : Orient Blackswan _c, 2009.
300			_axiv, 437p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b753
520			_aBuilding on, yet defying and interrogating the subaltern studies paradigm for the understanding of South Asian history, this book re-examines some of its tacit assumptions and introduces the category of ‘white subalternity’. Harald Fischer-Tine explores, innovatively, the intersection of the various systems of differentiation and hierarchy in British India between 1780 and 1914 that neatly demarcated the rulers from the ruled. In examining the history of white non-elite groups such as European sailors, vagrants, criminals and prostitutes and elite efforts to either ‘reclaim’ or hide them from the ‘native gaze’, this book challenges received ways of interpreting colonial rule. The study makes a strong case for understanding colonial power relations not in terms of a fixed ‘white-over-black’ contestation but rather as a situational, contextual and dynamic system. It argues that racial identity, including ‘colonial whiteness’ was a fluid category. It faced the constant threat of being undermined in the colony along the lines of class, gender and deviance, a result of complex stratifications within European society. Importantly, the study shows how the discourses and practices of the British ‘civilising mission’ in India bore striking similarity to the project of educating and disciplining the lower classes at home. Drawing on a wealth of archival and published material, travelogues, autobiographies and an exclusive collection of insightful illustrations, this book combines cutting edge theoretical approaches with thorough empirical analyses. Fischer-Tine’s innovative examining of race and class and his elegant and fluid style combine to make this an exceptional book, especially useful for anyone interested in the social and cultural history of British imperialism and in the history of colonial South Asia as a whole.
650			_aAsian history
650			_aColonial rule
650			_aWhite subalternity
700			_aHarald Fischer Tine
942			_cBOOK
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