Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Paintings credits
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial companions
- 2 Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their “wives”
- 3 Good patriarchs, uncommon families
- 4 Native women, native lives
- 5 Household order and colonial justice
- 6 Servicing military families: family labor, pensions, and orphans
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscelloneous Endmatter
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Paintings credits
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Colonial companions
- 2 Residing with begums: William Palmer, James Achilles Kirkpatrick and their “wives”
- 3 Good patriarchs, uncommon families
- 4 Native women, native lives
- 5 Household order and colonial justice
- 6 Servicing military families: family labor, pensions, and orphans
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Miscelloneous Endmatter
Summary

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- Sex and the Family in Colonial IndiaThe Making of Empire, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006