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This chapter charts the early evolution of ‘Anglo’ identities across the Indian Empire. It explores attempts to forge a single cohesive group and political organisation in order to face the challenges of Indianisation and Burmanisation of Anglo-Indian employment. Individual case studies help to expose the realities of patriotic attachments to Britain, boundary blurring between Anglo-Indians, Domiciled Europeans and colonial Britons, and demonstrate the significance of racial passing as a practical tool for self-elevation as well as a reflection of heartfelt identity claims and aspirations. It describes the differences between ethnic Anglo-Indians and Anglo-Burmans and between their closely intertwined politics. It furnishes a devastating account of the effects of inter-ethnic violence, war, displacement and consecutive partitions that tore asunder the broader imaginative space of Anglo-India, and pushed political leaders to attempt to shift and reformulate their constituents’ identities to meet the challenge of rising divergent nationalisms in Burma, India and Pakistan. |
