The Colonial Home: Managing Objects and Servants in British India
Colonial domesticity in India was often a fraught exercise. Guidebooks such as Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner’s 'The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook' offered advice on how a household may be run. This essay examines the above work to argue that domesticity was in fact political....
Main Author: | Pramod K. Nayar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ubiquity Press
2020-01-01
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Series: | Anglo Saxonica |
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Online Access: | https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/26 |
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