Download or read book Lesser Lives Stories of Domestic Servants in India written by Nitin Sinha and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-08-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Exemplary’ Ravish Kumar 'A wonderful selection’ Rana Safvi For generations, domestic servants in India have been subjected to neglect, apathy and cruelty. Though they are known nowadays as the domestic ‘help’, ‘aid’ or ‘staff’, often merely to meet the requirements of political correctness, their condition remains unchanged for the most part as the country’s privileged classes have failed to truly address the most pervasive inequalities in their households. In Lesser Lives, Nitin Sinha and Prabhat Kumar collect short fiction from the Hindi heartland that turns the gaze onto these continuing disparities. The eleven stories in the book, including Premchand’s ‘Maidservant’, Mahadevi Varma’s ‘Rama’, Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Blouse’, Amarkant’s ‘Bahadur’ and Shekhar Joshi’s ‘Dajyu’, offer both timeless classics and little-known literary gems, some of which have never been published in translation before.
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Download or read book Cultures of Servitude written by Raka Ray and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employers and servants in Kolkata reveal through their own stories how their evolving culture of servitude has produced, preserved, and disrupted ideas of gender and class in India and beyond.
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Download or read book The Other Side of Silence written by Urvashi Butalia and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on the partition of Punjab, 1947.
Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 19 written by Ian W. Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Volume 19 includes the following articles: Presidential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: IV: The Creation of the Washington Consensus by Martin Daunton, Representation c.800: Arab, Byzantine, Carolingian by Leslie Brubaker, Humanism and Reform in Pre-Reformation English Monasteries by James G. Clark, Lord Burghley and il Cortegiano: Civil and Martial Models of Courtliness in Elizabethan England (The Alexander Prize Lecture) by Mary Partridge, Communicating Empire: The Habsburgs and their Critics, 1700-1919 (The Prothero Lecture) by Robert Evans, The Slave Trade, Abolition and Public Memory by James Walvin, Cultures of Exchange: Atlantic Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade by David Richardson, and Slaves Out of Context: Domestic Slavery and the Anglo-Indian Family, c.1780-1830 by Margot Finn.
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