articulating middle-class identity in colonial Bengal
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Banerjee, Swapna M.
- Publish Year
- 2004
- Shelfmark
- B6582 - B
- Thesaurus
- dienstmeisjes, huishoudelijke en zorgberoepen, lagere klasse, middenklasse, sociale stratificatie, identiteit, hindoeïsme, kolonialisme, India, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Focusing upon stories of employers and servants Banerjee demonstrates how caste-class formation among the predominantly Hindu Bengali middle class depended much upon its relationships with the subordinate groups, like domestic workers. Looking at literary and official sources, the author argues that the articulation of the Bengali middle-class self-identity was predicated on the definition of its women, who in turn, were carefully distinguisehd from members of lower socio-economic groups.