Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:18:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosiney Isabel Bigatao.pdf: 7073138 bytes, checksum: 4f08f3f1938261fc34995a3963393bee (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The survey attempts to grasp how the image of the Pantanal farm worker is built, meaning he who lives and works in the Pantanal. For such, it analyzes the interactions between TV and radio and the mestizo culture of the Pantanal: mestizo because of the relational, connective plot by which the thinking is structured out in the face of a confluence of mosaic-like materials that do not fit into analyses based on the binary model, or into most Midwestern theories. The survey is based on the hypothesis that whenever the farm worker gets dressed and prepares himself for his daily chores, he wears clothing, accessories, items and objects that create an image reflective of the various incorporations that constitute the mestizo culture of the place. Said image comprises media interactions between Indians, Bandeirante colonizers, cowboys, Spaniards, Paraguayans, blacks, and other more recent cultural assimilations that took place mainly with the advent of TV and radio. Far removed from the internet and from mobile networks the Pantanal has specific features that limit the use of such apparatus , he moves closer to the radio, from which he receives messages as if they were audio e-mails, keeps himself updated, and becomes connected. Given his restricted access to printed media as well, due to the high rate of illiteracy virtually all of the farm workers interviewed were illiterate, those who were literate knew little more than how to read and write their names, and none had the habit of reading , and a culture that is oral par excellence, TV is as an important communication vehicle to the farm worker, one that is present in nearly all of the Pantanal farms. This panorama was decisive for the choice of the research corpus, which comprised the Pantanal soap opera, shot in 1990 and re-run in 2008 by the Manchete TV network, recent news stories by Rede Matogrossense de Televisão, a TV channel affiliated with the Globo network, and a daily show on Rádio Difusora Matogrossense, based in the city of Corumbá, as well as interviews recorded with farm workers over the course of one year of trips (2005) to farms in the Pantanal of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. For analysis, we have used the theories of semiotics of culture (Iuri Lotman), miscegenation (Severo Sarduy, Manuel Delgado, Serge Gruzinski, Amálio Pinheiro), sociology of knowledge (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), and theories by thinkers (Edgar Morin) and scholars in communication whose work helped us to understand how the relations between media and the spectator take place / A pesquisa tenta compreender como se dá a construção da imagem do peão pantaneiro, aqui entendido como aquele que vive e trabalha no Pantanal. Para tanto, analisa as interações da TV e do rádio com a cultura mestiça pantaneira: mestiça pela trama relacional e conectiva dos modos como se estrutura o pensamento perante a confluência de materiais em mosaico que não se enquadram nas análises feitas a partir do modelo binário e de grande parte das teorias centro-ocidentais. Parte-se da hipótese de que, quando o peão se veste e se prepara para a lida diária, ele usa roupas, acessórios, peças e objetos que criam uma imagem na qual se refletem as várias incorporações que compõem a cultura mestiça do lugar. Nessa imagem, estão presentes interações midiáticas entre índios, bandeirantes, vaqueiros, espanhóis, paraguaios, negros e outras assimilações culturais mais recentes, que acontecem principalmente a partir da TV e do rádio. Longe da internet e das redes móveis o Pantanal tem especificidades que limitam o uso desses aparatos , ele se aproxima do rádio, por meio do qual recebe recados como se fosse um e-mail sonoro, se atualiza e se conecta. Com acesso restrito também à mídia impressa, tendo em vista o alto índice de analfabetismo praticamente todos os peões entrevistados eram analfabetos, os que eram alfabetizados sabiam pouco mais que ler e escrever o nome e nenhum deles tinha o hábito de leitura , e com uma cultura oral por excelência, o peão também faz da TV um importante veículo de comunicação, presente em praticamente todas as fazendas pantaneiras. Esse panorama foi decisivo na escolha do corpus da pesquisa, formado pela novela Pantanal, da Rede Manchete, gravada em 1990 e reprisada em 2008, por matérias jornalísticas da Rede Matogrossense de Televisão, afiliada da Rede Globo, feitas recentemente, e por um programa diário da Rádio Difusora Matogrossense, em Corumbá, além das entrevistas gravadas com peões em um ano de viagens (2005) às fazendas do Pantanal de Mato Grosso do Sul. Para a análise, foram usadas as teorias da semiótica da cultura (Iuri Lotman, Paul Zumthor), da mestiçagem (Severo Sarduy, Serge Gruzinski, Amálio Pinheiro, Viveiros de Castro, Nestor Garcia Canclini), da sociologia do conhecimento (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), de pensadores (Edgar Morin) e estudiosos da comunicação como Jesús Martín-Barbero, cujo trabalho ajudou a entender como se dão as relações entre a mídia e o expectador

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:32:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jurema Mascarenhas Paes.pdf: 7221063 bytes, checksum: 8c55aa2324dc379e208f2acea94cd514 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In this thesis, the experiences and cultural translations of the northeastern migrants are analyzed in their processes of miscegenation by means of music, dance and the sociability spaces, in the second half of the 20th century (decades of 1950 to 1990), in the city of São Paulo. The successful trajectory of the artist Luiz Gonzaga is observed, by means of the creation of the baião music and music genre, the instrumental formation of the northeastern trio and all his vocal and scenic speech, representative of the Northeastern region, which occurred in the in-between field-city. The emersion of Luiz Gonzaga is articulated with the migratory flow of the 1950s, with highlights for the city of São Paulo and its work and growth speech. In sequence, the 1960s are focused, with the emersion of the Pedro Sertanejo forró house, one of the first in the city of São Paulo, and of the recording studio Cantagalo , unfolding the whole social network of knowledge and power, observing that the cultural manifestations, in their day-to-day social processes, worked as fighting strategies for territories inside the city. This is a thesis prepared under the perspective of Cultural History, permeating the experiences and strategies, ways of life, of expressing and of living, the miscegenation processes, diverse organization manners, watching for shared and confronted social experiences, analyzing symbols, images, mentalities, cultural practices, as experiences of power, domination, resistance, fight, negotiation, aesthetic and social conflicts. For such, it is sought to work in the intersection of the happenings and in the articulation of the differences between migration, field and city, popular culture and cultural industry, History and music, Oral History, photography and memory, day-to-day and culture, all of this to better understand the imbrications of the half-breed amalgams of the northeastern culture in the city of São Paulo while processes of negotiations and social conflicts / Nesta tese analisam-se as experiências e traduções culturais dos migrantes nordestinos em seus processos de mestiçagens mediante a música, a dança e os espaços de sociabilidade, na segunda metade do século XX (décadas de 1950 a 1990), na cidade de São Paulo. Verifica-se a trajetória de sucesso do artista Luiz Gonzaga por meio da criação da música e do gênero musical baião, da formação instrumental do trio nordestino e de todo o seu discurso vocal e cênico, representativo da região Nordeste, que se fez no entre-lugar campo-cidade. Articula-se a emersão de Luiz Gonzaga com o fluxo migratório da década de 1950, destacando-se a cidade de São Paulo e seu discurso de trabalho e crescimento. Na seqüência, focaliza-se a década de 1960, a emersão da casa de forró de Pedro Sertanejo, uma das primeiras da cidade de São Paulo, e da gravadora Cantagalo , desdobrando toda a rede social de saberes e poderes, constatando-se que as manifestações culturais, em seus processos sociais cotidianos, funcionaram como estratégias de luta por territórios dentro da cidade. Trata-se de uma tese elaborada sob a perspectiva da História Cultural, permeando as experiências e estratégias, modos de ser, de expressar e de viver, os processos de mestiçagens, diversas maneiras de organização, atentando para experiências sociais compartilhadas e confrontadas, analisando-se símbolos, imagens, mentalidades, práticas culturais como experiências de poder, dominação, resistência, luta, negociação, conflitos estéticos e sociais. Para tanto, busca-se trabalhar na intersecção dos acontecimentos e na articulação das diferenças entre migração, campo e cidade, cultura popular e indústria cultural, História e música, História Oral, fotografia e memória, cotidiano e cultura, tudo isso para melhor compreender as imbricações dos amálgamas mestiços da cultura nordestina na cidade de São Paulo enquanto processos de negociações e conflitos sociais

Visitors to Antebellum New Orleans rarely failed to comment on the highly visible population of free persons of color, particularly the women. Light, but not white, the women who collectively became known as Quadroons enjoyed a degree of affluence and liberty largely unknown outside of Southeastern Louisiana. The Quadroons of New Orleans, however, suffered from neglect and misrepresentation in nineteenth and twentieth-century accounts. Historians of slavery and southern black women, for example, have written at length on the sexual experiences of black women and white men. Most of the research, however, centers on the institutionalized rape, victimization, and exploitation of black women at the hands of white males. Even late into the twentieth century, scholars largely failed to distinguish the experiences of free women of color from those of enslaved women with little nuance in regard to economic, educational, and cultural differences. All women of color -- whether free or enslaved -- continued to be viewed through the lens of slavery. Studies that examine free women of color were rare and those focusing exclusively on them alone were virtually nonexistent. As a result, the actual experiences of free women of color in the Gulf States passed unnoticed for generations. In the event that the Quadroons of New Orleans were mentioned at all, it was normally within the context of the mythologized balls or in scandalous tales where they played the role of mistress to white men, subsequently resulting in a one dimensional character that lived expressly for the enjoyment of white males. Due to the relative silence of their own voices, approaching the topic of New Orleans’ Quadroons at length is difficult at best. But by placing these women within a wider pan-Atlantic framework and using extant legal records, the various African, Caribbean, French, and Spanish cultural threads emerge that contributed to the colorful cultural tapestry of Antebellum New Orleans. These influences enabled such practices as placage and by extension, the development of an intellectual, wealthy, vibrant Creole community of color headed by women.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T20:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 3503.pdf: 525283 bytes, checksum: bfb4d66f7d01145cac6857205dc7c328 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-26 / The present work presents a subordinate reading of Os Sertões of Euclides da Cunha also informed for sources of the Brazilian social thought and the incursion in the historical archives on the episode of Canudos. This at the beginning crystallized a true moral panic of the Republic. Euclides of the Wedge told the revolt of Canudos as a shock between races where the miscegenation gained a fincado historical clipping in the binary division of the Brazilian society in caboclos x mulatos (or interior x the coast). One underlines the panic that account of the Brazilian society with regard to the racial mixture between whites and blacks took and the fear moral of that the life in the cities would be a degenerative threat for our nationality. From this division racial of the society established for Euclides - and endorsed for intellectuals, politicians and artists in the consolidation of the Republic - the hinterland and its people if consecrate as the place and the citizens of a genuine nationality. This allowed, also, that the others were established, the undesirable one in the formation of the Brazilian nationality. / O presente trabalho apresenta uma leitura subalterna de Os Sertões de Euclides da Cunha informada também por fontes do pensamento social brasileiro e da incursão nos arquivos históricos sobre o episódio de Canudos. Este cristalizou um verdadeiro pânico moral no início da República. Euclides da Cunha relatou a revolta de Canudos como um choque entre raças em que a miscigenação ganhou um recorte histórico fincado na divisão binária da sociedade brasileira em caboclos x mulatos (ou interior x litoral). Sublinha-se o pânico moral que tomou conta da sociedade brasileira com relação à mistura racial entre brancos e negros e o temor de que a vida nas cidades seria uma ameaça degenerativa para nossa nacionalidade. A partir dessa divisão racial da sociedade estabelecida por Euclides - e endossada por intelectuais, políticos e artistas na consolidação da República - o sertão e sua gente se consagram como o lugar e os sujeitos de uma nacionalidade genuína. Isto permitiu, também, que se estabelecessem os outros, os indesejáveis na formação da nacionalidade brasileira.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:17:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana coelho.pdf: 5663456 bytes, checksum: 7956b919163e0885341f8f3a7dbb81f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-23 / This work has for proposal the analysis of the construction of a Mexican identity under the perspective of David Alfaro Siqueiros. This artist is an important character for the understanding of the transformations occurred in the Mexican society under the revolutionary context. The Mexican Revolution succeeded in motivating and involving the whole society and, due to the great popular participation in the uprisings, engendered the need to rethink this population contingent, surpassing the political and military character, and greatly affecting the culture. The muralist movement, on which Siqueiros took part, was significant to this question, since it tried to represent the inferior classes, inserting them in the official discourse. Under this perspective it is valid to point out that the analysis of the construction of identities is intrinsically connected to the social and political imaginary. In the Latin-American countries and especially in Mexico, object of this study, this relationship is directly connected to the notion of miscegenation. We cannot discuss Mexican identity without taking into consideration this question that is crystalline in the muralist movement and consequently in the work of Siqueiros. This identitary process is essential for the individual to engender the nation since it makes possible the integration between individual and society, despite its ocurrence in a contradictory manner, since it includes and excludes simultaneously. Hence, the emphasis of this work consists in the comprehension of how the Mexican historical context supported the Siqueirian identitary discourse. / Este trabalho tem como proposta a análise da construção de uma identidade mexicana sob a perspectiva de David Alfaro Siqueiros. Este artista é um personagem importante para a compreensão das transformações ocorridas na sociedade mexicana sob o contexto revolucionário. A Revolução Mexicana conseguiu dinamizar e comprometer toda a sociedade e, devido à grande participação popular nos levantes, engendrou a necessidade de se repensar este contingente populacional, ultrapassando o caráter político-militar, afetando sobremaneira a cultura. O movimento muralista, do qual Siqueiros fazia parte, foi significativo nessa questão, uma vez que buscou representar as classes subalternizadas inserindo-as no discurso oficial. Sob esta perspectiva é válido destacar que a análise da construção das identidades está intrinsecamente ligada ao imaginário político e social. Nos países latino-americanos e em especial no México, objeto desse estudo, essa relação está diretamente ligada à noção de mestiçagem. Não podemos discutir identidade mexicana sem levarmos em consideração essa questão que é cristalina no movimento muralista e conseqüentemente na obra de Siqueiros. Esse processo identitário é essencial para que o indivíduo possa engendrar a nação haja vista que possibilita a integração entre indivíduo e sociedade, mesmo ocorrendo de forma contraditória, pois inclui e exclui simultaneamente. Assim, a ênfase desse trabalho consiste, pois, na compreensão de como o contexto histórico mexicano subsidiou o discurso identitário siqueiriano.

O tema do presente estudo é a construção da brasilidade na obra de João Ribeiro. A partir da análise de duas de suas obras História do Brasil (1900) e A Língua Nacional (1921) busco compreender o esforço de um letrado do final do século XIX e início do XX em contribuir para constituição (ou reconstituição) e divulgação de elementos distintivos da nacionalidade brasileira. Principalmente através do saber historiográfico e lingüístico. A História do Brasil e A Língua Nacional são as duas obras em que João Ribeiro colocou em prática a intenção de interpretar e compreender o Brasil como um país autônomo em sua especificidade histórica e lingüística. Esta especificidade, segundo ele, se deve basicamente a formação miscigenada da população brasileira. / The subject of the present study is the construction of the brazility in the work of João Ribeiro. Departing of analysis of two of his works History of Brazil (1900) and The National Language (1921) I find to understand the effort of the erudite man, in the ends of the Century XIX and begins of the Century XX, to contribute for constitution, reconstitution and divulgation of the distinctive elements of the Brazilian nationality. Mainly through of the historiographic and linguistic knowledge, The History of Brazil and The National Language are the two works that João Ribeiro puts in practical his intention of the to interpret and to understand the Brazil how an autonomy country in its historical and linguistics especifities. According to João Ribeiro, this specificity to apply basicaly in the miscegenated formation of the Brazilian population.

Doctorat en sciences sociales, politiques et économiques / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Une certaine tendance se dessine, au sein de moult mouvements sociaux, territoires ou collectifs en lutte, de même que dans plusieurs champs des sciences sociales et, dans une certaine mesure, dans la culture populaire, quant à la nécessité de repenser les rapports aux territoires et au vivant (et plus généralement le rapport à la terre). En opposition aux diktats productivistes et extractivistes du libéralisme colonial, nombreuses sont celles qui invoquent la nécessité d’un habiter renouvelé, arrimé aux territoires : d’un habiter en prise sur un entour et en phase avec celui-ci. Bien que fécondes à de nombreux égards, de telles formes d’habitabilité ne peuvent rester imperméables aux critiques anticoloniales ou décoloniales qui soulignent comment un strict rapport innocent ou romantique à un territoire colonisé implique une reproduction de la colonialité. Dans cette thèse, j’étudie cette problématique générale telle qu’elle se déploie dans la colonie de peuplement québécoise contemporaine. Dans chaque chapitre, on aura affaire à un exemple (ou à une composition d’exemples apparentés, liés par un certain thème) dont il s’agira de problématiser à la fois les dimensions actuelles (historicité, contexte socioculturel, forces politiques en présence, discours et pratiques) et virtuelles (tendances plus abstraites se rapportant à un certain niveau de généralisation). On abordera ainsi : 1) le bréviaire du métissage, de la rencontre, des contacts ou alliances, bréviaire « horizontal » et aplanissant fortement mobilisé par la société franco-descendante pour faire sens de ses rapports aux Premiers Peuples et pour inscrire sa trajectoire en sol américain; 2) diverses conceptions du lien politique qui, chacune à leur façon, sous-tendent un refus total et une compréhension de l’action et de la collectivité politiques qui ne soit pas basée sur des rapports communautaires ou identitaires; 3) la figure du colon québécois, telle qu’elle émerge et se cristallise pendant la vague néonationaliste radicale des années 1960-1970; 4) les possibles d’un habiter anticolonial, notamment via un déplacement de la question du fondement et de l’origine. Chaque chapitre pourrait donc être compris comme offrant un plan de coupe de la problématique générale, tout en lui ajoutant des dimensions concrètes et matérielles. Somme toute, aucun dénouement thétique imposant ne doit être attendu; cette thèse est plutôt animée par une exigence : poser un problème, en abordant à la fois les considérations actuelles et virtuelles, en tentant d’ajouter de la perspective et en ravivant les aspérités du réel lui donnant de la complexité et de la texture. Ainsi, cette thèse prend avant tout la forme d’un essai visant à élaborer et approfondir la problématique coloniale (d’abord depuis ses implications identitaires et territoriales), de manière à ce que des prises sur celle-ci se consolident; de manière à ce que, confrontés à ses conditions, répercussions et effets souvent paradoxaux, nous, colons, puissions et souhaitions initier une rupture radicale. / There is an emerging trend in social movements, territories and collectives in struggle, as well as in several fields of social sciences and to a certain extent in popular culture. It concerns the need to rethink relationships to the land and the living, and more generally relationships to the earth. In opposition to the productivist and extractivist diktats of colonial liberalism, many invoke the need for a renewed way of dwelling, anchored in the land: a dwelling in touch and in phase with its milieu. Although fruitful in many respects, such forms of dwelling cannot remain impervious to anti-colonial or decolonial critiques, which underline the way in which innocent or romantic relationships to colonized territories entail a reproduction of coloniality. This thesis studies this general problematic as it unfolds in the contemporary Quebec settlement colony. Each chapter deals with an example (or a composition of related examples), problematizing both its actual dimensions (historicity, socio-cultural context, political forces, discourses and practices) and its virtual dimensions (more abstract tendencies relating to a certain level of generalization). An account is developed that includes : 1) the breviary of miscegenation, contacts and alliances strongly mobilized by Franco-descendant society in a "horizontal" and flattening manner to make sense of its relationships with Indigenous peoples and to inscribe its trajectory on the American land; 2) various conceptions of the political action which, each in their own way, underlie a total refusal and a conception of the collective formation not based on communitarian nor identitarian relationships; 3) the figure of the « colon » as it emerges within the radical neo-nationalist wave of the 1960s and 1970s; 4) the possibilities of an anticolonial dwelling, in particular through a shift in the question of foundation and origin. Each chapter can be understood as offering a cross-section of the general problematic, while adding concrete and material dimensions to it. No imposing thetic outcome is aimed for. Instead, the thesis is driven by a requirement: to expose and investigate a problem by addressing both its actual and virtual dimensions, attempting to add perspective reviving the roughness of the real, adding complexity and texture to it. The thesis takes the form of an essay aiming to elaborate and deepen the colonial problem (starting from its identitarian and territorial implications), consolidating our grasp of it so that, faced with its often paradoxical conditions, repercussions and effects, we, « colons », can and should opt to initiate a clear and radical break with it.

[pt] Esta dissertação mapeia relações entre o movimento antropofágico e o movimento eugenista no contexto entreguerras no Brasil. A eugenia, ciência do aprimoramento da raça, predominava nos meios científicos mundiais e nacionais, enquanto a Antropofagia representava, no campo cultural, uma ampliação e amadurecimento ideológico do modernismo brasileiro. Assim como na geração de 1870, que buscou interpretar o Brasil através da aplicação de preceitos científicos na crítica literária, na geração de 1920 as questões culturais e raciais retornaram com mesmo léxico. A intelectualidade letrada e científica do país, impulsionada por um surto de modernização do Estado (maximizado ao fim da primeira guerra), ganhou um novo fôlego para reverter a imagem do Brasil como uma nação atrasada, devido às alegações fatalistas sobre o clima, a miscigenação e a herança colonial. Simultaneamente, pensava-se em resolver a falta de coesão entre os elementos étnicos, intensificada após uma larga imigração europeia. Através da análise do periódico paulista, Revista de Antropofagia, e de seus suplementos literários em outros estados (pouco considerados pela crítica), é possível perceber que ambos os grupos, com perspectivas heterogêneas e até divergentes internamente, encontraram uma confluência ao debater a formação de uma raça brasileira essencialmente mestiça, forte e original, dotada de uma unidade moral e espiritual. Tal aproximação entre a Antropofagia e a eugenia colabora para a compreensão dos motivos pelos quais a valorização da herança negra e ameríndia dentro da brasilidade modernista (absorvida pelo Estado a partir de 1930), longe de ter rompido com os preconceitos raciais, culminou na legitimação de um modelo peculiar de neutralização das alteridades através da devoração. / [en] This dissertation maps the relations between the Antropophagy(Anthropophagic Movement) and the Eugenics Movement in Brazilian interwar context. Eugenics, is the science of racial improvement, predominated in bothglobal and national scientific circles, while Anthropophagy represented, in thecultural field, an expansion and ideological maturation of Brazilian Modernism s.Similar to the generation of the 1870s, which sought to interpret Brazil through the application of scientific principles in literary criticism, in the 1920s, cultural and racial concerns resurfaced with the same lexicon. The country s literary and scientific intelligentsia, driven by a modernizing surge from the State (which was maximized after the First World War), gained new impetus to reverse the image of Brazil as a backward nation due to fatalistic claims about the climate,miscegenation, and colonial heritage. Simultaneously, there was a desire to address the lack of cohesion among ethnic elements, intensified after a significant European immigration. Through the analysis of the São Paulo s literary journal Revista de Antropofagia and its literary supplements in other states (often overlooked bycritics), it is possible to perceive that both groups, with heterogeneous and eveninternally divergent perspectives, found a confluence when discussing the formation of a Brazilian race that is essentially strong, miscegenation-driven, and endowed with moral and spiritual unity. This convergence between Anthropophagy and eugenics contributes to the understanding of why the valorization of Black and Amerindian heritage within Modernism s Brazilianness (incorporated by the Statestarting from 1930) far from breaking with racial prejudices, culminating in the legitimation of a peculiar model of neutralizing otherness through devouring.

Anglo-Indians, a designation acquired in the 1911 Indian Census, had previously been known as Eurasians, East Indians, Indo-Britons and half-castes. ‘Anglo-Indian’ had previously denoted, and among some scholars continues to denote, Britons long resident in India. We will define Anglo-Indians as a particular mixed race Indo-European population arising out of the European trading and imperial presence in India, and one of several constructed categories by which transient Britons sought to demarcate racial difference within the Raj’s socio-racial hierarchy. Anglo-Indians were placed in an intermediary (and differentially remunerated) position between Indians and Domiciled Europeans (another category excluded from fully ‘white’ status), who in turn were placed below imported British superiors. The domiciled community (of Anglo-Indians and Domiciled Europeans, treated as a single socio-economic class by Britons) were relied upon as loyal buttressing agents of British rule who could be deployed to help run the Raj’s strategically sensitive transport and communication infrastructure, and who were made as a term of their service to serve in auxiliary military forces which could help to ensure the internal security of the Raj and respond to strikes, civil disobedience or crises arising from international conflict. The thesis reveals how calls for Indianisation of state and railway employment by Indian nationalists in the assemblies inaugurated by the 1919 Government of India Act threatened, through opening up their reserved intermediary positions to competitive entry and examination by Indians, to undermine the economic base of domiciled employment. Anglo-Indian leaders responded with varying strategies. Foremost was the definition of Anglo-Indians as an Indian minority community which demanded political representation through successive phases of constitutional change and statutory safeguards for their existing employment. This study explores various strategies including: deployment of multiple identities; widespread racial passing by individuals and families; agricultural colonisation schemes; and calls for individual, familial or collective migration.