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In recent years scholarly interest in domestic service has expanded. Nonetheless, it still remains one of the key under-explored areas of history, which is surprising given its critical importance in the making of modern industrialized societies. If we want to understand properly the modern society we live in today, we need better knowledge of the cultural, political and economic significance of the servant-master relationship in its development. To that end, this book concerns the relationship between domestic servants and their British employers in metropole (Britain) and colony (India) in the nineteenth century and seeks to locate domestic service within a metropolitan, colonial and an imperial context. It explores how discourses of race, gender and class intersected to shape the relational construction of the identities and roles of servant and master/mistress, and the ways in which that relationship was negotiated in Britain and colonial India respectively. It argues that the relationship between domestic servants and their employers was crucial to the structuring of social identities and relations across imperial space, and was an important part of place-making. In certain ci

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Author

Fae Dussart, Emily J. Manktelow, Jonathan Saha, Victoria Haskins

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350242609

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Management, Home & Lifestyle