ISBN:
9781009356589
,
9781009356572
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 188 Seiten
Series Statement:
Modern British histories
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lindgren-Gibson, Alexandra, 1982- Working-class Raj
DDC:
305.5/620954
Keywords:
zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.)
;
Working class History
;
English History
;
Emigration and immigration History
;
Families History
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
British & Irish history
;
Europäische Geschichte
;
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
;
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
;
Soziale Schichten
;
Great Britain Colonies
;
Britisches Empire
;
Indien
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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