Men, women, and domestics : articulating middle-class identity in colonial Bengal
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Men, women, and domestics : articulating middle-class identity in colonial Bengal
Oxford University Press, 2004
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[212]-235) and indexes
"This book grew out of the dissertation research at Temple University, Philsdelphia"-- Acknowlwdgements
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Description
In this ground breaking study, Swapna M. Banerjee examines the construction of national identity in colonial Bengal, through the lens of employer-servant relationships. Drawing on a wide range of literary and official sources, Banerjee reveals that domestic politics played a central role in the articulation of caste-class divides. Making new claims for the political influence of women and domestic workers, this is a scholarly and innovative study of a previously neglected chapter in Indian social history.
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: THE BHADRALOK, BHADRAMILA, AND DOMESTIC WORKERS IN COLONIAL BENGAL
- 1. A Genealogy of Servants: Dominance and Subordination in Households of Early Calcutta - Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries
- 2. Reconstituting the Household: Defining Middle-Class Domesticity in Colonial Bengal -The Mistress and the Servant
- 3. Remembering and Writing the Subaltern: Bengali Middle Class Recalls and Represents Domestic Workers
- 4. Subverting the Moral Universe: Transgression as a Theme in Representing Domestic Workers
- CONCLUSION
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