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- From the beginning of the nineteenth century, British memsahibs, the wives of officials, military officers, missionaries, and merchants, consistently expounded an image of Indians to the female reading public in Britain through their letters and diaries to female relatives, and through published autobiographies, advice manuals, articles, and advice columns in women's periodicals.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612029400200071Memsahibs and their servants in nineteenth-century India [1]
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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 ...
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the most important elements in the configuration of women's private lives: conception, pregnancy, childbirth, nursing, and child rearing. This essay fo-cuses on the experiences of confinement, delivery, and infant care of the "memsahibs," British housewives in India. 3 In conformity with the traditions of the time, memsahibs played a sec-
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...
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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Dec 20, 2006 · The servants' dark skin and their religious, social, and linguistic differences contributed to the negative attitudes of the memsahibs towards them. The Indian rebellion of 1857 and the emergence of social Darwinism further heightened memsahibs' beliefs that Indians were subhuman savages.
Painting and drawing played an important role in many women's lives; some illustrated their own books. Many women were serious independent travellers. And then there were important interventions in the Indian world, including education, medicine, missionary work, and indeed politics, with the devoted support Madeleine Slade gave to Gandhi.
