Working-Class Raj

ISBN-13: 9781009356589 / Twarda / 2023 / 250 str.

Alexandra (University of Mississippi) Lindgren-Gibson

Opis

Explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India after the Rebellion of 1857.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Family histories and remaking class in British India; 2. Writing family together across Imperial distances; 3. Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India; 4. Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service; 5. Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire; 6. Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.