Sex and the family in colonial India, the making of empire, Durba Ghosh
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Sex and the family in colonial India, the making of empire, Durba Ghosh
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Sex and the family in colonial India
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Durba Ghosh
Series statement
Cambridge studies in Indian history and society, 13
Sub title
the making of empire
Summary
By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, the author offers an account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural, social and even political mores of the period
Table Of Contents
Colonial companions -- Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their "wives" -- Good patriarchs, uncommon families -- Native women, native lives -- Household order and colonial justice -- Servicing military families: family labor, pensions, and orphans
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Creator
Subject
- Families -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Interracial marriage -- India -- History -- 18th century
- India -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- India -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Concubinage -- India -- History -- 18th century
- Families -- India -- History -- 18th century
- Concubinage -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Interracial marriage -- India -- History -- 19th century
Incoming Resources
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Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Subject8
- Families -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Interracial marriage -- India -- History -- 18th century
- India -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- India -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
- Concubinage -- India -- History -- 18th century
- Families -- India -- History -- 18th century
- Concubinage -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Interracial marriage -- India -- History -- 19th century
- Is Part Of1