Unfamiliar Relationsrestores the family and its many forms and meanings to a central place in the history of South Asia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.In her incisive introduction, Indrani Chatterjee argues that the recent wealth of scholarship on ethnicity, sexuality, gender, imperialism, and patriarchy in South Asia during the colonial period often overlooks careful historical analysis of the highly contested concept of family. Together, the essays in this book demolish family as an abstract concept in South Asian colonial history, demonstrating its exceedingly different meanings across temporal and geographical space. The scholarship in this volume reveals a far more complex set of dynamics than a simple binary between indigenous and colonial forms and structures. It approaches this study from the pre-colonial period on, rather than backwards as has been the case with previous scholarship. Topics include a British colonial officer who married a Mughal noblewoman and converted to Islam around the turn of the nineteenth century, the role gossip and taboo play in the formation of Indian family history, and an analysis of social relations in the penal colony on the Andaman Islands.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13
9780813533803
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94748277
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Children & Family
Author
Indrani Chatterjee
Publication Name
Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Indrani Chatterjee
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