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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
SAVED.MONEY: 85 DOLLAR DISKCOUNT: 01 x 05MB
AUTHOR: DR CHANDRA MALLAMPALLI
BOOK
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
