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Summary:

By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, the author offers an account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural, social and even political mores of the period.

Table of Contents:

• Colonial companions
• Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their "wives"
• Good patriarchs, uncommon families
• Native women, native lives
• Household order and colonial justice
• Servicing military families: family labor, pensions, and orphans.

Author/Creator:

Ghosh, Durba, 1967-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Sex and the family in colonial India: the making of empire [by Ghosh, D.]

Related Series:

Cambridge studies in Indian history and society; [volume] 13

Subjects:

Interracial marriage — India — History — 18th century

Interracial marriage — India — History — 19th century

Concubinage — India — History — 18th century

Concubinage — India — History — 19th century

Families — India — History — 18th century

Families — India — History — 19th century

India — Race relations — History — 18th century

India — Race relations — History — 19th century

1700-1899

Concubinage

Families

Race relations

Interracial marriage

India

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.

Physical Description:

xi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

HQ669 .G48 2006

ISBNs:

9780521857048
052185704X

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006025599

OCLC Numbers:

70866993