TY - BOOK AU - Lindgren-Gibson,Alexandra TI - Working-class Raj: colonialism and the making of class in British India T2 - Modern British histories SN - 9781009356589 PY - 2023/// KW - Working class KW - India KW - History KW - Sociology KW - English KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Families KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Family histories and remaking class in British India -- Writing family together across imperial distances -- Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India -- Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service -- Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire -- Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India N2 - "Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British workingclass history in a global perspective"-- ER -