"Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial socie…
"Despite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial socie…
'Houses of Madness' is a history of asylums of colonial Bengal in the 19th century. It explores these institutions through several phases that not only involved changes in medical treatment and its interpretation, but also the question of spatial distribution within these instit…
Study of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi literature.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected incontemporary literature.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected in contemporary literature.
An exploration of the shaping of childhood in the colonial period.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected in contemporary literature.
Focusing on politics of childhood in India between the 1860s and 1930s, this book deals with some pressing issues, including British and Indian attitudes to children in both countries, and how these are reflected in contemporary literature.
Study of Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi literature.
"This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textile, regime changes, personal histories, and migration. The essays…
