Seemin Qayum: 1 book
Cultures of Servitude
Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City....
