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The 'incumberances' : British women in India, 1615-1856 / Joan Mickelson Gaughan.
LIBRA HQ1593 .M529 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mickelson-Gaughan, Joan, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, White--India--Social conditions--To 1900.
- Women, White.
- British--India--Social conditions--To 1900.
- British.
- Women--Great Britain--History--To 1900.
- Women.
- Women--Social conditions.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- Great Britain.
- India.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 277 pages ; 22 cm
- regular print
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- British women in India
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- A social history of British women in India based on records, journals, and diaries of the women themselves and their contemporaries.
- Contents:
- The factory, 1615-1757. An 'extreamlie unkind' decision ; The 'incumberances' ; 'A college, monasterie...a house under religious orders' ; A saint and a 'mistris' and Madras ; The 'debauched' ladies of Bombay ; Feathering their nests ; When east meets west
- The age of the nabobs, 1757-1805. Fishing fleets ; A city of palaces ; Passages to India ; The merchant princes in retreat
- The age of improvement, 1805-1856. 'In search of the picturesque' ; Burdens of empire ; Pilgrims in petticoats : the evangelicals ; Of clay and porcelain ; 'For the quiet of his mind and the good of his soul'.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780198092148
- 0198092148
- OCLC:
- 863316498
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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