Cultures of servitude
Subtitle: modernity, domesticity, and class in India
By: Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum.
Contributors: Qayum, Seemin.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780804760713; 9780804760720
Subjects: Domestics -- India -- History; Master and servant -- India -- History; Social classes -- India -- History; India -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approaching servitude in Kolkata; title: Colonial legacies and spatial transformations : from the big house to the flat; title: Between family retainer and freelancer; title: Disquieting transitions : from 'part of the family' to the wage contract; title: The failure of patriarchy; title: The cultivation and cleavage of distinction; title: Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata.