Sex and the Family in Colonial India - Durba Ghosh

Sex and the Family in Colonial India

The Making of Empire

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
292 Seiten
2008
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-67379-2 (ISBN)
32,40 inkl. MwSt
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.
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 fascinating account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural, social and even political mores of the period. The book makes an original and signal contribution to scholarship on colonialism, gender and sexuality.

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).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 14.1.2008
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
Zusatzinfo 8 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Gewicht 446 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 0-521-67379-8 / 0521673798
ISBN-13 978-0-521-67379-2 / 9780521673792
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
der stille Abschied vom bäuerlichen Leben in Deutschland

von Ewald Frie

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
23,00
vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

von Walter Demel

Buch | Softcover (2024)
C.H.Beck (Verlag)
12,00