Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson (University of Mississippi)

Working-Class Raj

Colonialism and the Making of Class in British India

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Produktbeschreibung

Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.

Produktdetails

• Modern British Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781009356589
• ISBN-10: 1009356585
• Artikelnr.: 68165749

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.. Her work has been published in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History and has been supported by the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture, and Society, and the University of Rochester's Humanities Center.

Inhaltsangabe

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.