To Glut a Menial's Grudge
Domestic servants and the Ilbert Bill controversy of 1883
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fae Dussart (University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2013.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2031202090 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article focusses on a particular political controversy in India surrounding the Ilbert Bill of 1883, in which domestic servants had an unwitting and significant role. The response to the Bill in the Anglo-Indian community was vehemently hostile. By considering how the potential threat posed by Indian domestic servants to their English mistresses became a rhetorical stick for servant employers to beat the Government with, this article demonstrates the centrality of the servant/employer relationship to the intertwined gender, class and racial assumptions of the English in India
Art · Centrality · Government (linguistics · Linguistics · Literature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Servant · Sociology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Engineering · Law · Social and Economic Development in India
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |