Nitin Sinha, Prabhat Kumar

Lesser Lives: Stories of Domestic Servants in India (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'Exemplary' Ravish Kumar

'A wonderful selection' Rana Safvi

For generations, domestic servants in India have been subjected to neglect, apathy and cruelty. Though they are known nowadays as the domestic 'help', 'aid' or 'staff', often merely to meet the requirements of political correctness, their condition remains unchanged for the most part as the country's privileged classes have failed to truly address the most pervasive inequalities in their households.

In Lesser Lives, Nitin Sinha and Prabhat Kumar collect short fiction from the Hindi heartland that turns the gaze onto these continuing disparities. The eleven stories in the book, including Premchand's 'Maidservant', Mahadevi Varma's 'Rama', Saadat Hasan Manto's 'Blouse', Amarkant's 'Bahadur' and Shekhar Joshi's 'Dajyu', offer both timeless classics and little-known literary gems, some of which have never been published in translation before.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789389104080
• Artikelnr.: 62262472

Autorenporträt

NITIN SINHA is Senior Research Fellow at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. He was the principal investigator of a three-year project (2015-18) entitled, 'Domestic Servants in Colonial South Asia', funded by the European Research Council (ERC). A regular contributor to the Wire and various journals, he has written Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s and co-edited two volumes of Servants' Pasts on the history of domestic servants in India. He has taught at the universities of Humboldt and York, among other institutions. He recently won the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project on a social history of time in South Asia.

PRABHAT KUMAR is Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. He has taught history at the Presidency University, Kolkata. His areas of research include the literary, visual and cultural histories of north India. He is presently a fellow at the M. S. Merian-R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies: Metamorphosis of the Political (ICAS:MP), Delhi.