Men at Home

Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Gyanendra Pandey (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2025
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478031383 (ISBN)

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In Men at Home, Gyanendra Pandey offers a detailed exploration of men’s comportment and conduct in the home and the implications of their ambiguous commitment to this critical part of their lives. The author draws on a wealth of archival materials-autobiographies, memoirs, fiction, and ethnographies-to situate Indian men firmly in the domestic world, underlining their dependence on the family and home. He investigates how men negotiate marriage, intimacy, and conjugality and focuses the effects of the humiliating and constant assertion of gender, caste, and class power in familial interactions. To uncover the nuances of these relationships, Pandey attends to the domestic commitments of upper-, middle-, and lower-class men across religion and caste. He considers issues of honor and shame, rights and responsibilities, citizenship and belonging through this exploration of how men across the subcontinent understand themselves in and beyond their domestic relationships. As much as it is a book about masculinity and conjugality, this is a book about Indian modernity, nationalism, and society as seen from the location of men in the home.

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University and author of A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India, and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, among other books.

Dramatis Personae ix
Prelude. Fragments of Family 1
I. Legacies
1. The Indian Modern 11
2. Homes Our Fathers Built 33
II. Practices
3. Duty 59
4. Discipline 85
5. Dignity 111
III. History in a Visceral Register
6. The Things Men Touched 135
7. The Nature of Men 153
Epilogue. Ym Ylimaf 169
Acknowledgments 179
Notes 183
Bibliography 205
Index 215

Erscheinungsdatum	13.12.2024
Zusatzinfo	2 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-13	9781478031383 / 9781478031383
Zustand	Neuware