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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 August 2014
      02 November 2006
      ISBN:
      9781139878418
      9780521857048
      9780521673792
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139878418
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.613kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.446kg, 292 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (13)
      Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society (13)
    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History
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    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.

    Reviews

    'Ghosh's book will be immensely valuable to scholars of gender, race, and empire …'

    Source: Journal of Asian Studies

    '… Sex and the Family makes an important contribution to the investigation of racial and gender relations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century India by reminding us of the anxiety Englishmen felt and by recovering some of the Indian women's voices.'

    Source: Eighteenth-Century Studies

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