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Author Panayi, Panikos, author.

Title The Germans in India : Elite European migrants in the British Empire / Panikos Panayi.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Studies in imperialism
Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-272) and index.
Summary Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen and travellers. The story told here questions, for the first time, the concept of Europeans in India. Previous scholarship has ignored any national variations in the presence of white people in India, viewing them either as part of a ruling elite or, more recently, white subalterns. The German elites undermine these conceptions. They developed into distinct groups before 1914, especially in the missionary compound, but faced marginalisation and expulsion during the First World War.
Contents 1. The Germans in India as elite European migrants -- 2. Passages to India -- 3. Everyday life -- 4. Community -- 5. Interethnic perceptions and interactions -- 6. The impact of the Great War -- 7. Endings, new beginnings and meanings -- Index.
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Language In English.
Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- Germany -- History.
Elite (Social sciences)
Germany.
History.
Elite (Social sciences) -- India -- History.
India.
Germans -- India -- History.
Germans.
India -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
India -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Panayi, Panikos. Germans in India. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017 (DLC) 2017470244
ISBN 9781526119353
1526119358
152611934X
9781526119346 (electronic book)
1526119331 (hardback)
9781526119339 (hardback)
Standard No. 10.7765/9781526119346