Sex and the Family in Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and the Family in Colonial India write by Durba Ghosh. This book was released on 2006-11-02. Sex and the Family in Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.
Sex and the Family in Colonial India South Asian Edition
Sex and the Family in Colonial India South Asian Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sex and the Family in Colonial India South Asian Edition write by Durba Ghosh. This book was released on 2008-02-02. Sex and the Family in Colonial India South Asian Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India write by Jessica Hinchy. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Indian Sex Life
Indian Sex Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Sex Life write by Durba Mitra. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Indian Sex Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "During the colonial period, Indian intellectuals--philologists, lawyers, scientists and literary figures--all sought to hold a mirror to their country. Whether they wrote novels, polemics, or scientific treatises, all sought a better understanding of society in general and their society in particular. Curiously, female sexuality and sexual behavior play an outside role in their writing. The figure of the prostitute is ubiquitous in everything from medical texts and treatises on racial evolution to anti-Muslim polemic and studies of ancient India. In this book, Durba Mitra argues that between the 1840s and the 1940s, the new science of sexuality became foundational to the scientific study of Indian social progress. The colonial state and an emerging set of Bengali male intellectuals extended the regulation of sexuality to far-reaching projects that sought to define what society should look like and how modern citizens should behave. An exploration of this history of social scientific thought offers new perspectives to understand the power of paternalistic and deeply violent claims about sexual norms in the postcolonial world today. These histories reveal the enduring authority of scientific claims to a tradition that equates social good with the control of women's free will and desire. Thus, they managed to dramatically reorganize their society around upper-caste Hindu ideals of strict monogamy"--
Domesticity in Colonial India
Domesticity in Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Domesticity in Colonial India write by Judith E. Walsh. This book was released on 2004. Domesticity in Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the 1880s, Hindu domestic life and its most intimate relationships had become contested ground. For urban, middle-class Indians, the Hindu woman was at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and traditional home and family life. This book sets this debate within the context of a nineteenth-century world where bourgeois, European ideas on the home had become part of a transnational, hegemonic domestic discourse, a 'global domesticity.' But Walsh's interest is more in hybridity than hegemony as she explores what women themselves learned when men sought to teach them through the Indian advice literature of the time. As a younger generation of Indian nationalists and reformers attempted to undercut the authority of family elders and create a 'new patriarchy' of more nuclear and exclusive relations with their wives, elderly women in extended Hindu families learned that their authority in family life (however contingent) was coming to an end.
