Description
About the Author
Ipshita Nath has a PhD in English Literature and was formerly an assistant professor at a constituent college of the University of Delhi. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow pursuing research on the history of health and medicine in colonial India at the Department of History, University of Saskatchewan. Her short story collection, The Rickshaw Reveries, was published in 2020.
Reviews
'Calls into question the widespread loathing in India for the British women who lived there before independence.' -- The Times
'[A] well-researched, well-written book.' -- Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine
'An admirable attempt to view British India though a new lens, shifting our attention towards the experiences of British women as described in their own words.' -- International Institute for Asian Studies
'Railing against "repetitive and limiting representations" of Memsahibs, Nath champions, instead, their colourful personalities, creative output and considerable socio-cultural impact, offering a vibrant alternative lens through which to view British women in the Raj.' -- Chandrika Kaul, Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews
'Memsahibs shows through their own writings that British women in the Raj saw their lives as adventurous, within the confines of a colonial world ruled by gender, race and class, and themselves as heroic, surviving Indian dangers and British tedium.' -- Indira Karamcheti, postcolonial literature specialist and Associate Professor of American Studies, Wesleyan University
Book Information
ISBN 9781787387089
Author Ipshita Nath
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd