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Summary:

What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late imperial India while serving the Raj? Empire Families examines this British overseas community by looking at a series of families, their lives in India, and their travels back to Britain. Focusing for the first time on the experiences of parents and children alike, and including the Beveridge, Butler, Orwell, and Kipling families, Elizabeth Buettner uncovers the meanings of growing up in the Raj. and an itinerant imperial lifestyle. - ;What was life like for the British men, women, and children who lived in late impe.

Table of Contents:

• Making 'British-Indians': children, family traditions of Indian service, and cycles of migration
• Danger and pleasure at the bungalow: British children at home in India
• 'Not quite pukka': schooling in India and the acquisition of racial status
• Separations and the discourse of family sacrifice
• Sent home to school: British education, status, and returns overseas
• From somebodies to nobodies: returning home to Britain and perpetuating overseas connections.

Author/Creator:

Buettner, Elizabeth

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Empire families: Britons and late imperial India [by Buettner, E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Empire families [by Buettner, E.] (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004 — LCCN 2004301766)

Subjects:

British — India — History — 19th century

British — India — History — 20th century

Families — Great Britain — Colonies

1800-1999

Families

Colonies

British

India

Great Britain

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-300) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS479 .B93 2004eb

ISBNs:

9780191530326 (electronic bk.)
0191530328 (electronic bk.)
1280846755
9781280846755
0199249075 (Cloth) [Invalid]
9780199249077 [Invalid]
0199287651 [Invalid]
9780199287659 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004301766 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

252674174