Wilding the domestic
Camp servants and glamping in British India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8961941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ezra Rashkow (Montclair State University, corresponding author), Ezra D Rashkow (Montclair State University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-391 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Indian Economic & Social History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-4646 • E-ISSN: 0973-0893 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00194646211020309 |
| OpenAlex | W3179798918 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
How can a jungle be domestic, and a camp servant be a domestic servant? This article argues for a reconceptualisation of historical forests and jungles of India: spaces usually conceived of as wild and hostile in the popular imagination were also a domestic realm. Pushing the boundaries of traditional conceptualisations of both domestic and wild, I examine the lives of late nineteenth to early twentieth-century camp servants and colonial officers living and working in the central Indian hinterland. Building on my work on populations I have referred to as ‘subaltern shikaris’, typically ‘tribal’ employees in British big game hunting expeditions, and drawing from a vast literature left behind by European forest officers and big game hunters in central India, this article shows how servants and servitude were vital to establishing that jungle camps could indeed be quite domestic
Archaeology · Big game · Colonialism · Domestic work · Environmental protection · Geography · Jungle · Political science · Politics · Realm · Servant · Situated · Sociology · Subaltern · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Wilderness and the American mind.
The problem of nature
The Roots of the Periphery
Two years in the jungle
Footloose Labour
The Art of Not Being Governed
Manliness and morality
Brokered livelihoods
Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200–1991
Making subaltern shikaris
Military Conflict and Forests in Central Provinces, India
The Jungle and the Village
Big Game Shooting in India, Burma, and Somaliland
The Empire of Nature
In the Time of Trees and Sorrows
The Hill Tribes of the Central Indian Hills
Predatory Care
Geographies of Knowing, Geographies of Ignorance
Courts and Camps in India
Serving Sahibs with Pony and Pen
Memsahibs and their servants in nineteenth-century India[1]
Resistance to Hunting in Pre-independence India
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |