In the 18th and 19th centuries, British soldiers in India sometimes married Indian women, sending their children back to Britain. What would life have been like for these children? What were the attitudes towards mixed-race people at the time? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

In the 18th and 19th centuries, British soldiers in India sometimes married Indian women, sending their children back to Britain. What would life have been like for these children? What were the attitudes towards mixed-race people at the time?

by Kaeliss

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Not to forestall further answers - especially those taking different tacks, but there's a great answer from 10 months ago to a similarish question by /u/mikedash: I am a young woman from Hindustan that has been adopted into a British naval officer's family in 1812 and brought to English soil. What sort of social and religious obstacles would I face in my day to day life?