Fellow British subjects or colonial "others"? Race, empire, and ambivalence in Canadian representations of India in the early twentieth century. From: American Review of Canadian Studies | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Hastings, Paula | COPYRIGHT 2008 Association for Canadian Studies in the United States. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the early twentieth century, English-Canadian schoolchildren learned to divide the British Empire into "the white man's country" and "the coloured man's country." According to one geography textbook, India clearly belonged in the latter category. "In the vast peninsula of India we find [a] ... coloured man's country, densely populated by nearly one fifth of the world's whole population, all of dark skin, but varying in civilization from the most degraded savage to the highly-cul...