The Road to Chandrapore
Eric Stokes, 17 April 1980
Race, Sex and Class under the Raj: Imperial Attitudes and Policies and their Critics
by Kenneth Ballhatchet.
Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980,0 297 77646 0 Show More
by Kenneth Ballhatchet.
Weidenfeld, 199 pp., £9.50, January 1980,
Queen Victoria’s Maharajah: Duleep Singh 1838-1898
by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980,0 297 77656 8 Show More
by Michael Alexander and Sushila Anand.
Weidenfeld, 326 pp., £9.95, February 1980,
“... It is a commonplace assumption among modern historians that minority rule has always had to rely on devices to preserve social distance. These have usually consisted of distinctions of dress, comportment and speech, and of restrictions on commensality and connubium. In Western societies they have operated within the cultural framework of class. Kenneth Ballhatchet takes the equally familiar notion that in colonial societies alien minority rule translated class distinctions into those of race ... ”
