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)

Global Domesticity

11

(20)

Domesticity in Colonial Calcutta

31

(20)

Rewriting Patriarchy: The Companionate Marriage

51

(12)

Will the Educated Woman Still Cook and Scour Plates?

63

(24)

What's Love Got to Do with It?

87

(26)

The Well-Ordered Home

113

(28)

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 upades]

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 [Nari 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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Domesticity in Colonial India What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice

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