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'To glut a menial's grudge': domestic servants and the Ilbert bill controversy of 1883
This article focusses on a particular political controversy in India surrounding the Ilbert Bill of 1883, in which domestic servants had an unwitting and significant role. The response to the Bill in the Anglo-Indian community was vehemently hostile. By considering how the potential threat posed by Indian domestic servants to their English mistresses became a rhetorical stick for servant employers to beat the Government with, this article demonstrates the centrality of the servant/employer relationship to the intertwined gender, class, and racial assumptions of the English in India.
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Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryISSN
1532-5768Publisher
Johns Hopkins University PressExternal DOI
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1Volume
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- Geography Publications
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2014-08-21Usage metrics
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