Add to ORKGThis paper explores the incorporation and uses of women within dominant historical accounts of colonial India through an examination of the sexual relationships between British men stationed in the Indian subcontinent and their ‘native’ consorts” – concubines, common law wives, and nautch (dancing) girls – in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Such encounters between the colonizers and a specific subset of the ‘subject peoples’ are both romanticized and at the same time trivi..
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism-nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privi...
The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century have been ...
Abstract The paper traces the problematic relationship between different races and political conflic...
This dissertation examines nineteenth-century manifestations of colonial intimacy in a range of text...
Following the murder of a Bombay prostitute in 1917, the Government of India launched a series of in...
Although many recent historical works on the Raj examine issues of race and gender in the imperial c...
Since the mid-eighteenth century, British families have relied on South Asian women known as ayahs t...
This study focuses on the British wives of civil servants and army officers who lived in India from...
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within t...
According to the modern social conventions sex is considered to be a strictly private thing that hap...
In mid- to late-nineteenth-century literature, the narratives of empire surrender to their own sexua...
The British men and women who lived in India to fulfil their imperial duties were known as the ‘Angl...
During the transition to colonialism, over thirty Indian political missions ventured to London. Repr...
While men held the titles of governor and viceroy in British India, it was women who were responsibl...
The colonial encounter was arguably an early instance of transnationalization that had lasting and s...
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism-nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privi...
The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century have been ...
Abstract The paper traces the problematic relationship between different races and political conflic...
This dissertation examines nineteenth-century manifestations of colonial intimacy in a range of text...
Following the murder of a Bombay prostitute in 1917, the Government of India launched a series of in...
Although many recent historical works on the Raj examine issues of race and gender in the imperial c...
Since the mid-eighteenth century, British families have relied on South Asian women known as ayahs t...
This study focuses on the British wives of civil servants and army officers who lived in India from...
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within t...
According to the modern social conventions sex is considered to be a strictly private thing that hap...
In mid- to late-nineteenth-century literature, the narratives of empire surrender to their own sexua...
The British men and women who lived in India to fulfil their imperial duties were known as the ‘Angl...
During the transition to colonialism, over thirty Indian political missions ventured to London. Repr...
While men held the titles of governor and viceroy in British India, it was women who were responsibl...
The colonial encounter was arguably an early instance of transnationalization that had lasting and s...
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism-nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privi...
The seismic shifts in Indian society which took place over the course of the 19th century have been ...
Abstract The paper traces the problematic relationship between different races and political conflic...