Men, Women, and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal

Swapna M. Banerjee

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INTRODUCTION: THE BHADRALOK, BHADRAMILA, AND DOMESTIC WORKERS IN COLONIAL BENGAL 1. A Genealogy of Servants: Dominance and Subordination in Households of Early Calcutta - Eighteenth through Twentieth Centuries 2. Reconstituting the Household: Defining Middle-Class Domesticity in Colonial Bengal -The Mistress and the Servant 3. Remembering and Writing the Subaltern: Bengali Middle Class Recalls and Represents Domestic Workers 4. Subverting the Moral Universe: Transgression as a Theme in Representing Domestic Workers CONCLUSION

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