Language:
English
Series Statement:
New perspectives in South Asian history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Servants’ pasts
DDC:
331.281640460954
Keywords:
Household employees ; India ; History ; Congresses
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Women household employees ; India ; History ; Congresses
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Indentured servants History 18th century
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Indentured servants History 19th century
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Indentured servants History 20th century
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Household employees Social conditions 18th century
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Household employees Social conditions 19th century
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Household employees Social conditions 20th century
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Master and servant History
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Caste History
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British Occupation of India (1765-1947)
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Caste
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Household employees ; Social conditions
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Indentured servants
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Master and servant
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India
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South Asia
;
History
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India History British occupation, 1765-1947
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Südasien
;
Indien
;
Gesinde
;
Haushalt
;
Diener
;
Volkskunst
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Gemälde
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Plastik
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Fotografie
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Film
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Arbeitsbeziehungen
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Beziehung
Abstract:
Domestic servants have always been, and continue to be, ubiquitous in the households of middle and upper income rural and urban South Asia. They are also strikingly visible in art forms: paintings, sculptures, photographs, cinema, plays, stories, etc. Yet, they remain absent from scholarly research with very few recent exceptions.
Abstract:
Domestic service was an important category of labour and social relationships in early modern and colonial India but the domestic servant has largely remained absent from historians’ accounts of South Asia. Servants’ Pasts, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century South Asia, Vol. 1, much like Vol. 2, covers a range of polities; it specifically explores the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, and provides untold accounts of the ideals and practices of master/mistress-servant relationships during that period.
Abstract:
Young and seasoned scholars from diverse backgrounds use various sources - stories, letters, ledges, visuals, biographies, chronicles, newspaper reports and legal injunctions - to unravel the complex relationships around service and servitude. Contract, loyalty, patronage, ethical concerns and not least, coercion - both affectionate and violent - mark the nature of this relationship.
Note:
Erschienen: 1-2
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Vol. 2 edited by Nitin Sinha and Nitin Varma
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