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The 'incumberances' : British women in India, 1615-1856

Title
The 'incumberances' : British women in India, 1615-1856 / Joan Mickelson Gaughan.
Author
Mickelson-Gaughan, Joan, 1940-
Publication
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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Description
xv, 277 pages; 22 cm
Summary
A social history of British women in India based on records, journals, and diaries of the women themselves and their contemporaries.
Alternative Title
British women in India, 1615-1856
Subject
  • To 1900
  • Women, White > India > Social conditions
  • Women, White > India > History
  • British > India > Social conditions
  • British > India > History
  • Women > Great Britain > History
  • Women
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Great Britain
  • India
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.
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'.
ISBN
  • 9780198092148
  • 0198092148
LCCN
2013413524
OCLC
  • ocn863316498
  • 863316498
  • SCSB-5783563
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries