ISBN10: 9352876946, ISBN13: 9789352876945, [publisher: Orient Blackswan] Hardcover Contents: Introduction/Nitin Sinha and Nitin Varma. I. Female Domestics and Moral Orders: 1. From Bibis to Ayahs: Sexual Labour, Domestic Labour, and the Moral Politics of Empire/Satyasikha Chakraborty. 2. The Many Lives of Ayah: Life Trajectories of Female Servants in Early Nineteenth-Century India/Nitin Varma. 3. Training a Servant Class: Gender, Poverty and Domestic Labour in Early Nineteenth-Century Educational Sources/Jana Tschurenev. 4. Streamlining Paid Domestic Labour in Postcolonial India: The New Female All-Rounder in Master Servant Expatriate Relationships/Shalini Grover. Interjection 1: Slavery and a History of Domestic Work/Samita Sen. II. Servants In Literary and Public Worlds: 5. Representing Servant Lives in the Household and Beyond/Prabhat Kumar. 6. Servants and Mistresses: Literary and Legal Sketches in Early Twentieth-Century Uttar Pradesh/Charu Gupta. 7. Casteing Servants in Colonial Calcutta/Tanika Sarkar. Interjection 2: Agency and Domestic Workers/Lucy Delap. Bibliography. Notes on the Editors and Contributors. Index. The importance of domestic service as a growing area of occupation and employment in contemporary South Asia is marked by a surprising silence about it in historical scholarship. The second volume of Servants Pasts covers the colonial and postcolonial periods. It lays out the intricate relationship between domestic work and employment in light of the ...

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