Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire by Durba Ghosh

Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

Durba Ghosh

277 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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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, ...

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