Chapter Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India

• Main Author: Varma, Nitin (auth)
• Other Authors: Williams, James (Editor), Hentschke, Felicitas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2018
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective 5
• Subjects: History; General & world history; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Housing; Neighbourhood; Social inequality; Intersectionality; Exclusion
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Our house is our corner of the world (G. Bachelard) Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts, invoking places, persons, emotions, and fantasies. This book, with photographs from Maurice Weiss, demonstrates how the relations between houses, work, and the self have transformed dramatically...