Domesticity in Colonial India What Women

Domesticity in Colonial India offers a trenchant analysis of the impact of imperialism on the personal, familial, and daily structures of colonized people's lives. Exploring the intimacies of empire, Judith E. Walsh traces changing Indian gender r

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
A Note on Translation and Transliteration	xvii
Introduction	1	(10)
1 Global Domesticity	11	(20)
2 Domesticity in Colonial Calcutta	31	(20)
3 Rewriting Patriarchy: The Companionate Marriage	51	(12)
4 Will the Educated Woman Still Cook and Scour Plates?	63	(24)
5 What's Love Got to Do with It?	87	(26)
6 The Well-Ordered Home	113	(28)
7 What Women Learned: Rewriting Patriarchy, Writing the Nation and the Self	141	(22)
Epilogue	163	(4)
Appendix A: Conversations with the Wife [Strir sahit kathopakathan]	167	(10)
Appendix B: A Husband's Advice to His Wife [Strir prati svamir upadés]	177	(4)
Appendix C: The Laksmi of the Home [Grha laksmi]	181	(6)
Appendix D: The Duties of Women [Ramanir kartavya]	187	(8)
Appendix E: Woman's Dharma [Nail dharma]	195	(8)
Supporting Translations: A Note on Bengali Domestic Manuals and Their Authors	203	(2)
Brief Glossary	205	(4)
References	209	(14)
Index	223	(12)
About the Author	235

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