Sex and the Family in Colonial India - The Making of Empire

Informationen zum Autor Durba Ghosh is Assistant Professor in History at Cornell University. She has co-edited, with Dane Kennedy, Decentering Empire: Britain, India and the Transcolonial World (2006). Klappentext Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India. Zusammenfassung An original contribution to scholarship on colonialism! gender and sexuality in India. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families! at all levels of the social scale! Durba Ghosh offers a fascinating account of how gender! class and race affected the cultural and social mores of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Colonial companions; 2. Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their 'wives'; 3. Good patriarchs, uncommon families; 4. Native women, native lives; 5. Household order and colonial justice; 6. Servicing military families: family labour, pensions and orphans; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Durba Ghosh, Durba (Cornell University Ghosh
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521673792
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67379-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian Hi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous