CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS RACE RELIGION AND LAW IN COLONIAL INDIA 2012 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: RACE, RELIGION AND LAW IN COLONIAL INDIA: TRIALS OF

AN INTERRACIAL FAMILY (CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN INDIAN

HISTORY AND SOCIETY)

PUBLISHER: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

LINK: http://is.gd/Rw0Bww RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL

FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.08

ISBN: 9781139181242 STORE DATE: 2012

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AUTHOR: DR CHANDRA MALLAMPALLI



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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 distillers in the local community. When one brother

died, a dispute arose between his wife and brother over family

assets, which resulted in a landmark court case, Abraham v

Abraham. It is this case which is at the center of this book, and

which Chandra Mallampalli uses to examine the lives of those

involved and, by extension, of those - 271 witnesses in all - who

testified. In its multilayered approach, the book sheds light not

only on interracial marriage, class, religious allegiance, and

gender, but also on the British encounter with Indian society. It

shows that far from being products of a "civilizing mission" who

embraced the ways of Englishmen, the Abrahams were ultimately

when faced with the strictures of the colonial legal system

obliged to contend with hierarchy and racial difference