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- When the British took over India after the 1858 uprising, it populated it with civil servants, usually men, who also needed wives. These wives, called memsahibs (‘mem’ derived from ma’am and ‘sahib’ was the male form), were usually born in Britain then moved to India when they married.
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For centuries, Indian girls were hired by the wealthy British families to care for their children as nursemaids and nannies, called ayahs, and by the late nineteenth century ayahs were a key feature in British households in India.
Aug 3, 2022 · If memsahibs were the wives of important dignitaries or military officers of higher ranks, they would be welcomed into the local rajas’ palaces. But very often, they sojourned up-country where...
In their advice manuals memsahibs reiterated the physical, moral, sexual, and intellectual inferiority of the Indian servant, and from the 1850s onward, wider political and scientific discourse on race fuelled the feelings of British supremacy and the legitimacy of imperialism.
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- Nupur Chaudhuri
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Memsahibs built a vast body of literature about their experiences in India in the form of published accounts or private diaries providing variegated insights into Raj-life in India. Yet, their...
memsahibs, this essay adds to previous scholarship a needed perspective on women's experience of colonial India, and shows how the private sphere re- flected, preserved, and promoted imperialist attitudes.
In his travel journal J. R. Ackerley, a close friend of E. M. Forster, reports an anecdote related to him by an Englishwoman living in India. The memsahib had been returning to her bungalow in the evening, accompanied by a servant.1 Suddenly a krait—one of the...
Oct 15, 2022 · These women had built a vast body of literature about their experiences in India, in the form of published accounts or private diaries, providing variegated insights into Raj-life in India. Yet ...
