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In their advice manuals memsahibs reiterated the physical, moral, sexual, and intellectual inferiority of the Indian servant, and from the 1850s onward, wider political and scientific discourse on race fuelled the feelings of British supremacy and the legitimacy of imperialism.
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Feb 9, 2021 · The memsahibs : the women of Victorian India. by. Barr, Pat, 1934-. Publication date. 1976. Topics. British -- India -- History -- 19th century, Women -- India -- History -- 19th century, Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Publisher.
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- Rachel Thomas
- 2018
The Helen Allingham's portrait was painted in the early 20th century of a memsahib, children and an ayah at the seaside on the Isle of Wight. Although an uncommon sight outside London, this was likely not the only trip this ayah had made to Britain.
JohnMorris'scontentionthat"they[memsahibs]werevery largelyresponsibleforthebreak-upofrelationsbetweentheBritish andtheIndians ...
The paper looks at the records of some British women travellers to India between 1770-1870, and closely analyses their recordings of experiences with Indian women in the zenana.
memsahibs in the late eighteenth century that British society firmly put down its roots in Indian soil. 9 Discussing their activities in the home, with the fam- ily, and in the club, Greenberger further contends that the memsahibs gener- ally saw it as their purpose and responsibility to develop a British way of life on the Indian subcontinent.
