{"id":24294,"date":"2026-01-03T13:30:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=24294"},"modified":"2026-01-03T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:32:16","slug":"anglo-indians-and-minority-politics-in-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/portfolio\/anglo-indians-and-minority-politics-in-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uther Charlton-Stevens<\/strong><br \/>\nRoutledge, 2020<\/p>\n<p>ISBN: 9780367594084<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The book analyses the processes of ethnic group formation and political organisation, beginning with petitions to the East India Company state, through the Raj\u2019s constitutional communalism, to constitution-making for the new India. It details how Anglo-Indians sought to preserve protected areas of state and railway employment amidst the growing demands of Indian nationalism. Anglo-Indians both suffered and benefitted from colonial British prejudices, being expected to loyally serve the colonial state as a result of their ties of kinship and culture to the colonial power, whilst being the victims of racial and social discrimination. This mixed experience was embodied in their intermediate position in the Raj\u2019s evolving socio-racial employment hierarchy. The question of why and how a numerically small group, who were privileged relative to the great majority of people in South Asia, were granted nominated representatives and reserved employment in the new Indian Constitution, amidst a general curtailment of minority group rights, is tackled directly. Based on a wide range of source materials from Indian and British archives, including the\u00a0<i>Anglo-Indian Review<\/i>\u00a0and the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India, the book illuminatingly foregrounds the issues facing the smaller minorities during the drawn out process of decolonisation in South Asia. It will be of interest to students and researchers of South Asia, Imperial and Global History, Politics, and Mixed Race Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uther Charlton-Stevens Routledge, 2020 ISBN: 9780367594084 The book analyses the processes of ethnic group formation and political organisation, beginning with petitions to the East India Company state, through the Raj\u2019s constitutional communalism, to constitution-making for the new India. It details how Anglo-Indians sought to preserve protected areas of state and railway employment amidst the growing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7635,"featured_media":24295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[1485],"portfolio_tag":[],"class_list":["post-24294","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-books"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/24294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7635"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/24294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/24294\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=24294"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tag?post=24294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}