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Memsahibs
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Author : Ipshita Nath
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2022-06-16
Memsahibs written by Ipshita Nath and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-16 with History categories.
For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they’d ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India offered a chance to fling off the shackles of Victorian social mores. The word ‘memsahib’ conjures up visions of silly aristocrats, well-staffed bungalows and languorous days at the club. Yet these women had sought out the uncertainties of life in Britain’s largest, busiest colony. Memsahibs introduces readers to the likes of Flora Annie Steel, Fanny Parks and Emily Eden, accompanying their husbands on expeditions, travelling solo across dangerous terrain, engaging with political questions, and recording their experiences. Yet the Raj was not all adventure. There was disease, and great risk to young women travelling alone; for colonial wives in far-flung outposts, there was little access to ‘society’. Cut off from modernity and the Western world, many women suffered terrible trauma and depression. From the hill-stations to the capital, this is a sweeping, vividly written anthology of colonial women’s lives across British India. Their honesty and bravery, in their actions and their writings, shine fresh light on this historical world.
The Memsahibs
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Author : Pat Barr
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-05-19
The Memsahibs written by Pat Barr and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with History categories.
Thousands of British women lived in India during Victorian times. They first went out as wives, mothers, sisters; others followed as teachers, doctors, missionaries. What they did and how they responded to their strange environment were seldom thought worthy of record, and writers have handed down to us a fictional image of the typical 'memsahib' as a frivolous, snobbish and selfish creature flitting from bridge to tennis parties 'in the hills'. For the most part, these clichés bear little resemblance to the truth; many women loyally and stoically accepted their share of the responsibility with endurance, courage and resilience. This story is developed around a number of women who wrote in an entertaining and intelligent fashion about their Indian experiences, starting with the arrival on the scene of one of the wittiest and cleverest of them all - Emily Eden, sister of Lord Auckland who was Governor-General from 1836 to 1842. It ends with Maud Diver, who maintained that the random assertion made by Kipling about the 'lower tone of social morality' in India was unjust and untrue. The dramatis personae of the book include Vicereines, wives of Civil Servants and missionaries struggling to break down the subservience of women throughout the vast sub-continent. Through women's eyes we witness the principal historic events at the time - the Afghan conflicts, the Mutiny - as well as the daily routines in very different cantonments and some of the British personalities who made their mark on nineteenth-century India - Honoria Lawrence, Flora Steel, Lady Sale. In this vivid account, Pat Barr evokes the sights and smells of Victorian India, its teeming masses, its problems so impossible, it seemed, for Englishwomen to solve.
Memsahibs
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
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Memsahibs Abroad
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Author : Indira Ghose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Memsahibs Abroad written by Indira Ghose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
This exciting anthology provides the best of travel writing by the memsahibs of the Raj who were anxious to see `the real India'. The book salvages long-forgotten writings by Englishwomen travelling in India. These historically valuable writings are perceptive and amusing, and have long been out of print. It also contains biographical notes on the travellers.
Memsahib S Writings
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Author : Indrani Sen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Memsahib S Writings written by Indrani Sen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literature and society categories.
The white women of colonial India wrote extensively during their years of residence in India. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such European women's narratives. Mapped along the historical shifts that took place over the hundred-year period, the book captures the many facets and nuances of gender relations across racial divide. Imaginatively organised around key sites of contact, the narratives are arranged in fourteen thematic clusters. This book will appeal to readers interested in gender and colonialism and the writings of the Raj.
The Compassionate Memsahibs
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Author : Mary Ann Lind
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-04-27
The Compassionate Memsahibs written by Mary Ann Lind and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-04-27 with Social Science categories.
The Compassionate Memsahibs refutes the traditional view--perpetuated in the works of writers like Rudyard Kipling--of the memsahibs as a homogeneous group of aloof, pampered women who had little interest in India. Here Mary Ann Lind presents information about the lives of fifteen memsahibs--all of which is previously unpublished--who voluntarily participated in reform and welfare activities in India during the first half of this century. Their activities and experiences placed them outside the more expected lifestyle of the memsahib and offer contemporary social historians a new window through which to view the Raj.
The Male Empire Under The Female Gaze
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Author : Susmita Mittapalli
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
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Memsahib S Chronicles
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Author : Suchita Malik
language : en
Publisher:
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Stories From The Raj
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Author : Pran Nevile
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Stories From The Raj written by Pran Nevile and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with British categories.
Stories from the Raj takes one into the lives of Sahibs and Memsahibs, and offers an array of entertaining tales about their interests and lifestyles from the Sahibs' enthusiasm for nautch parties and pig-sticking, to the First Imperial Durbar in Delhi, to intriguing stories about Brahmin astrologers, and fascinating accounts of jugglers adept at the great Indian rope trick. Nevile's prose has the relaxed, easy familiarity of a veteran dinner-table raconteur, and the narrative, interspersed with period paintings and photographs, transports the reader to another era the Raj, its set of cultural idiosyncrasies, and a colourful cast of mavericks and their eccentricities.
Memsahib S Chronicles
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Author : Suchita Malik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
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