Anglicized Indian elites faced permanent subordination despite assimilation

Evidence

It was not simply that, no matter how Anglicized a Pal became, he was always barred from the uppermost peaks of the Raj. He was also barred from movement outside its perimeter – laterally, say, to the Gold Coast or Hong Kong, and vertically to the metropole. ‘Completely estranged from the society of his own people’ he might be, but he was under life sentence to serve among them. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 367

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core colonial-psychology trap: estranged from home yet barred from the center, echoing Fanon and the educated-colonial-subject figure in the Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 361; British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 5399; Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements (+5 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the educated colonial subject punished with inferiority despite successful assimilation — a pattern in the Islamophobia module.

Related

• Anglicized colonial elites were barred from the English nation itself (similarity 0.82)
• Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites (similarity 0.80)
• British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Official nationalism invited colonized peoples to assimilate but barred full inclusion #corroborates (0.88) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 401
• British rule aimed to create an Indian elite culturally English in outlook. #expands (0.85) — , The Rod and the Child, 5399
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #complicates (0.82)
• Macaulay’s education policy deliberately manufactured Anglophone Indian elites #corroborates (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 361
• Assimilationist colonial policies generate nationalist independence movements #contradicts (0.75)
• Empire size forced recruitment of bilingual native clerks who later became nationalists #complicates (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 450