Sex and the Family in Colonial India The Making of Empire

Name: Sex and the Family in Colonial India The Making of Empire
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ISBN: 9780521673792

ISBN-10: 0521673798

ISBN-13: 9780521673792

Edition: 2008

Authors: Durba Ghosh, C. A. Bayly, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, Gordon Johnson

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In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as 'British' or 'Indian' were constant concerns of the colonial government even at this time. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, from high-ranking officials and noblewomen to rank-and-file soldiers and camp followers, and also the activities of indigenous female concubines, mistresses and wives, the author offers a…

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List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Colonial companions



Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their G++wivesG++



Good patriarchs, uncommon families



Native women, native lives



Household order and colonial justice



Servicing military families: family labour, pensions and orphans


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index