Description: Through a landmark court case in mid-nineteenth-century colonial India, this book investigates hierarchy and racial difference.
Brief description: Chandra Mallampalli is Associate Professor of History at Westmont College. His publications include Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, 1863-1937 (2004).
Review Quotes: "Mallampalli has produced a marvelous work of legal ethnography that enriches our historical understanding of the dynamics of interracial marriage and the relationships of religion, race, and social standing. His book speaks to crucial themes of British colonial rule and the texture of the lives of those who lived under its authority."
James Epstein, Victorian Studies