ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the longevity of a series of related ideas and projects, which provided a crucial, significant, and persisting outlet for large expenditures of time, energy, thought, and capital by mixed race peoples in South Asia and Burma. Although Anglo-Burmans and Anglo-Indians were deeply intertwined and overlapping ethnic groups, who were each in turn subsumed under the political category of the other before and after Burma's constitutional separation from India, this raises the question of whether a broader collectivity of mixed race peoples in Asia might have come into being. The Japanese singled out mixed race peoples from across the European empires in Asia and subjected them to specific cruelties and differential treatment. Competing and overlapping with the idea of Anglo-Indians developing as a group apart and distinct from Indians and Britons were two more radical constructs: pan-Eurasianism and full merger into whiteness.
