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Working-class Raj : colonialism and the making of class in British India / Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson, University of Mississippi

Lindgren-Gibson, Alexandra, 1982- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge ; New York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2024

vii, 188 Seiten

Englisch

Family histories and remaking class in British India -- Writing family together across imperial distances -- Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India -- Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service -- Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire -- Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Lindgren-Gibson, Alexandra, 1982- : Working-class Raj. - Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2023 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-35658-9 (hardback); 978-1-009-35657-2 (paperback)

978-1-009-35656-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2023022926

HD8684

305.5/620954 ; 305.5620954     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-SUEDASIEN-DE-16

LOC-SH: Working class -- India -- History ; English -- India -- History ; Emigration and immigration -- India -- History ; Families -- India -- History ; Great Britain -- Colonies

zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.) ; Asiatische Geschichte ; British & Irish history ; Europäische Geschichte ; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain ; Kolonialismus und Imperialismus ; Soziale Schichten ; Britisches Empire ; Indien

"Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British workingclass history in a global perspective"--

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Focusing on the military men, railway workers, and wives and children of the British working-class who went to India after the Rebellion of 1857, Working-Class Raj explores the experiences of these working-class men and women in their own words. Drawing on a diverse collection of previously unused letters and diaries, it allows us to hear directly from these people for the first time. Working-class Brits in India enjoyed enormous privilege, reliant on native Indian labour and living, as one put it, like gentlemen. But within the hierarchies of the Army and the railyard they remained working class, a potentially disruptive population that needed to be contained. Working in India and other parts of the empire, emigrating to settler colonies, often returning to Britain, all the while attempting to maintain family ties across imperial distances-the British working class in the nineteenth century was a globalised population. This book reveals how working-class men and women were not atomised individuals, but part of communities that spanned the empire and were fundamentally shaped by it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details