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....

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Main Author: Pramod K. Nayar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2020-01-01
Series:Anglo Saxonica
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Online Access:https://www.revista-anglo-saxonica.org/articles/26