Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia

by Indrani Chatterjee

Unfamiliar Relations restores the family and its many forms and meanings to a central place in the history of South Asia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

In her incisive introduction, Indrani Chatterjee argues that the recent wealth of scholarship on ethnicity, sexuality, gender, imperialism, and patriarchy in South Asia during the colonial period often overlooks careful historical analysis of the highly contested...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813533805
• ISBN13: 9780813533803
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"