Club Lunch – ‘Anglo-India and the End of Empire’: A Lunch with Author Uther Charlton-Stevens
Date: 12 Jan 2023 12:30 PM — 02:00 PM | Venue: Dining Room
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| LUNCH TALK ‘Anglo-India and the End of Empire’: A Lunch with Author Uther Charlton-Stevens |
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| Anglo-India and the End of Empire, a new book by FCC member Uther Charlton-Stevens, has been praised as “a rich history of the Anglo-Indian community, people of both Indian and British heritage… [which] offers a valuable insight into an often overlooked, but vital, community which has so often played a key role in Indian history.” The vantage point of the small “mixed-race” minority positioned between British imperialism and Indian nationalism proves central to the book’s colourful and emotive retelling of the story of the downfall of the British Raj and the violence accompanying the partition of the Indian subcontinent. Trapped between colonial rulers and colonised subjects and their own long association with British rule, Anglo-Indians faced a unique and poignant dilemma over how to reshape their lives and identities towards the end of empire. Moderated by FCC Correspondent Governor Jennifer Jett. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Uther Charlton-Stevens is the author of Anglo-India and the End of Empire (Hurst Publishers, UK, Oxford University Press, USA, 2022) and Anglo-Indians and Minority Politics in South Asia (Routledge, UK, 2018), and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. His research draws on his own ‘mixed-race’ family history, including his father’s background as an Anglo-Indian from Bangalore who migrated to Britain as a child. Having grown up in Hong Kong since the age of two, Charlton-Stevens attended ESF schools, namely Peak School and Island School. Charlton-Stevens went on to earn his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford and his masters from the LSE.
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