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Tzoref-Ashkenazi presents a detailed study of two German regiments which served in India under the British between 1782 and 1791. He asks if the Germans identified with the goals of the British colonial power, how they felt about local people and whether they adopted the colonial ideologies of their British employers.

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Chen Tzoref-Ashkenazi is Guest Researcher at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, where he is working on a project entitled German Auxiliary Troops and the Colonialism Discourse of the Eighteenth-Century. This work grew out of his PhD dissertation published in 2009 as Der romantische Mythos vom Ursprung der Deutschen: Friedrich Schlegels Suche nach der indogermanischen Verbindung.

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