Eurasians -- Fiction; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Fiction
A well-known Chicago editor says, “A powerfully written book, though
without any evidence of straining after effect. It should be of especial
interest to a wide circle of readers, as it deals with a new subject in
a masterly manner. The life history of the offspring of an English
father and a Mohammedan mother affords the author opportunity to give a
vast amount of information about the doings of the British in India, and
the results of the contact between the two races, with the peculiarities
of each, and of their offspring, which may well open the eyes of the
world to a view of the enormities that have been perpetrated in the
far-off land under the plea of modern civilization. Simple justice to
the work and its author requires that it should have a large sale.”
“A work of decidedly unique character, is ‘THAT EURASIAN’ just published
by F. Tennyson Neely. It deals with a class of people which has
heretofore seldom figured in our literature, viz., that large family of
half European and half Hindu parentage so numerous in British India. The
abuses and indignities to which these people are subjected have long
been well known to those who have given any attention to the condition
of affairs in British India during the past half century, but the
general public is strangely ignorant of all this. The many startling
revelations made by the author of this book, who is an European long
resident in India, will be received with something like wonderment and
horror. We can only hint at the extent of these revelations; the
legalized vice, the cruel oppression of a wretched peasantry, the
shocking abuse of native women by Europeans, and other gigantic
enormities are fully and fearlessly exposed in this remarkable
book—remarkable none the less for the author’s keen and caustic
criticism of the Government that fosters such abuses, as for the grace
and elegance of his literary style, and the lucidity of his thought.”
For Sale by all Booksellers or Sent Prepaid on Receipt of Price by the
Publisher,
F. Tennyson Neely,
CHICAGO. NEW YORK.
THAT EURASIAN.
CHAPTER I.
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