What were some racial epithets from the 19th century?

Question

I am especially interested in British slang. I know that native Indians from the subcontinent were sometimes called n-ggers, but what were other racial epithets from the time period for Indians, Africans, and Chinese? For Muslims?

Answer 1

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Chinese // \\ Chinks, Yellow Bellies, Slants, Wogs, Gooks, Gogs - - -

Africans // as cited the N word, also Sambos, Monkeys, Apes, Darkies, Coloreds, Woolies (their hair)

Indians // \\ Wogs is the only one that leaps to mind hmm here is a site
http://www.geocities.com/faskew/Colonial/Glossary/British.htm
""chee-chee // Half-caste, mixed race of British and Indian. Also the sing-song accent of same, from the early influence of Welsh missionaries.
punkah wallah // Indian employed to work a fan, usually by a string attached to their toe or thumb.
wog // Derogatory term for Indians or Arabs. Sometimes also Wiley Oriental Gentleman or Westernized Oriental Gentleman (Origin uncertain. Either Westernized Oriental Gentleman or from Golliwogg, a living black doll in children's books by the American writer Bertha Upton.) """

Muslims // \\ see above

Peace................. o o o p p o o p p o o

Answer 2

As "bearstir" notes, the term "Wogs" stands out as an oft used derogatory subcontinent native term from the late Victorian Empire years.
One not mentioned above is "Fuzzies" for the Sudanese or Dervishes encountered by the British in the Sudan at the time of the siege of Khartoum in the mid1880s and into the 1890s when a young Winston Churchill fought them at Omdurman.
Churchill fought with the 21st Lancers in September 1898 at the battle of Omdurman and wrote in his memoirs about the use a new Mauser semi-automatic pistol shooting into the faces of Fuzzies when the regiment blundered into a large hidden infantry force of Sudanese Muslims.
This term "Fuzzies" is also used by Michael Caine in the 1965 movie Zulu (Michael Caine's first movie role) to refer to the African natives of the Natal region in South Africa (the Zulus) of January 22-23, 1879. That movie tries to be fairly correct historically - filmed on location with real Zulu people as warriors. "Fuzzies" refers to the hair just as "Wollies."
None of these terms - of course - are politically correct in this day and age.