Cultures of servitude : modernity, domesticity, and class in India / Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum.
Material type: TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780804760720 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780804760713 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 640.460954 22
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.
Approaching servitude in Kolkata -- Colonial legacies and spatial transformations : from the big house to the flat -- Between family retainer and freelancer -- Disquieting transitions : from 'part of the family' to the wage contract -- The failure of patriarchy -- The cultivation and cleavage of distinction -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata.
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