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| Abbreviations |
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| Introduction. India's `Domiciled Community': The Ambivalence of "Whiteness under the British Raj |
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1 Aims, themes, and focus of the book |
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2 Historiographical preliminaries |
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3 Scope, terminologies, and sources |
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1 British Prestige and Fears of Colonial Degeneration |
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2 Two faces of colonial racism: prestige and degeneration |
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3 Colonials as personifications of prestige |
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4 Bourgeois selves and their struggles against degeneration |
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27 | (18) |
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45 | (3) |
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2 The Origins and Emergence of the `Domiciled Community' |
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48 | (30) |
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2 `Poor whites': their origins, lives, and perceived anomalies |
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49 | (10) |
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3 The domiciled community: its emergence and categorization |
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59 | (17) |
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76 | (2) |
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3 The `Eurasian Question': The Domiciled Poor and Urban Social Control |
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2 Imperialism and the ambivalence of civilizing |
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3 Colonial Calcutta and Pauperism Commissions |
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4 European pauperism diagnosed: alleged symptoms and suggested remedies |
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5 Disciplinarian schemes and quests for alternative spaces |
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103 | (7) |
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110 | (6) |
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4 `European Schools': Illiteracy, Unemployment, and Educational Uplifting |
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116 | (21) |
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2 `European education': institutional evolution and ideological foundations |
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117 | (11) |
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3 Educational inclusion and its cultural and class ambiguities |
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128 | (7) |
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135 | (2) |
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5 Towards a Solution to the Eurasian Question: Child Removal and Juvenile Emigration |
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2 St Andrew's Colonial Homes at Kalimpong: objectives and historical significance |
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138 | (8) |
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3 Domesticity and colonial child removal |
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4 Labouring back into the Empire: domestic discipline and vocational training |
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160 | (16) |
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5 The limits to `child-saving': India and its place within the British Empire |
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178 | (3) |
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6 Disputing the Domiciliary Divide: Civil-Service Employment and the Claim for Equivalence |
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2 Criteria for commanding positions: the historical background |
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182 | (4) |
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3 The associations of the domiciled community |
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186 | (8) |
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4 Fitness to rule: `home-born' versus domiciled candidates |
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194 | (7) |
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5 `Britishness' and its discontents: confrontations with the Viceroy |
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6 Constitutional reform and the `minoritarian' claim for legal protection |
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| Conclusion: Race, Class, and the Contours of Whiteness in Late British India |
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| Select Bibliography |
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| Index |
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