Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain

ISBN-13: 9780192848239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 288 str.

Assistant Professor of History Arunima (Assistant Professor

Recenzje

This book forever changes the history of domestic colonial service. Datta argues that traveling ayahs are a prism for the workings of imperial power from both above and below. Readers will be stunned by the photographic archive she has curated and by the way she practices care work for the subjects she so brilliantly moves out of the waiting room of history.

O autorze

Arunima Datta is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of North Texas. She is the author of the multiple award-winning book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya (2021), which received the Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women's Studies Association, the Gita Chaudhuri Award from the Western Association of Women Historians and the Stansky Award from the North American Conference of British Studies. Her earlier work on the history of travelling ayahs in Britain has also won the Carol Gold Award. She serves as an associate editor of Gender & History, Britain and the World, and as an Associate Review Editor of the American Historical Review. Her works have appeared in scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.