Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family

by Chandra Mallampalli

Book Overview

How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, both of whom married Eurasian women, became wealthy as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107487544
• ISBN13: 9781107487543
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"