SEX AND THE FAMILY IN COLONIAL INDIA by Durba Ghosh ( 9781139878418 )

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Title:

SEX AND THE FAMILY IN COLONIAL INDIA
THE MAKING OF EMPIRE

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ISBN 10:

1139878417

ISBN 13:

9781139878418

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 August, 2014

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society 13

Description:

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

8 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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Non-returnable

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