Working-Class Raj - Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India

"Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British workingclass history in a global perspective"--

About the author

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.. Her work has been published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and has been supported by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society, and the University of Rochester's Humanities Center.

Product details

• Authors: Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson, Alexandra (University of Mississi Lindgren-Gibson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009356572
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0935657-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Modern British Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, British Empire, India, British & Irish history, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Social classes