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Sex and the family in colonial India : the making of empire
- Author
- Ghosh, Durba, 1967-
- Title
- Sex and the family in colonial India : the making of empire / Durba Ghosh.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Description
- xi, 277 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Indian history and society ; 13
- Notes
- "Digitally printed version"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-273) and index.
- Contents
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- Colonial companions
- Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their "wives"
- Good patriarchs, uncommon families
- Native women, native lives
- Household order and colonial justice
- Servicing military families: family labor, pensions, and orphans.
- Kinsey subjects
- Interethnic marriage--India. Family history--India. Marriage history--India. Marriage customs--India. Sex customs--India. Social customs--India.
- ISBN
- 9780521673792 0521673798