half-castes in English
noun
1
a person whose parents are of different races, in particular, with a European father and an Indian mother.
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1. Colonial policy, settler views, and missionary priorities worked through Amalgamationist racial codes, were preoccupied with racial crossings and half-castes, and envisioned an aggressive inclusiveness that aimed, ultimately, at a tender disappearance of the ‘native race’: a ‘euthanasia of savage communities’ as one policy-maker put it.