Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India: Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires

By Adrian Carton

Book Overview

Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, gender and citizenship across empires.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138948330
• ISBN13: 9781138948334
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"