Sex and the Family in Colonial India: Eight Indian Lives

by Durba Ghosh

Book Overview

In the early years of the British empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as 'British' or 'Indian' were constant concerns of the colonial government even at this time. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521673798
• ISBN13: 9780521673792
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"