ABSTRACT
In the opaque taxonomy of an anxiously self-referential early modern English white cultural optics, "Indian" is merely a generalized category of the non-white, synonymous with "negar" and "blackamoor/blackamore." Among other people of color present in the archives, East Indians are the largest group, and they are cited in a few instances outside London but mostly within. The East Indian records will be considered in two sequences, beginning with those from London and succeeded by ones from elsewhere in the country. In 1614 an Indian youth was transported to England, taught English and Latin, and in December 1616, in a busy commercial district of East London, baptized with the name Peter Pope. For the carried-over Indian youth to be given an English name and made into a Christian was for the English to confusedly reproduce themselves in the youth, otherwise the conflicted self-replication that is historically Anglo-European colonialism's fundamental instinct.
