Lindgren-Gibson, Alexandra 1982-

Working-class Raj: colonialism and the making of class in British India Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson, University of Mississippi. - Cambridge, UK; New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2024. - vii, 188p. cm. - Modern British histories .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Family histories and remaking class in British India -- Writing family together across imperial distances -- Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India -- Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service -- Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire -- Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.

"Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British workingclass history in a global perspective"--

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Working class--History.--India
Sociology
English--History.--India
Emigration and immigration--History.--India
Families--History.--India


Great Britain--Colonies.