{"product_id":"waiting-on-empire-a-history-of-indian-travelling-ayahs-in-britain-hardcover","title":"Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eArunima Datta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. \u003cem\u003eWaiting on Empire\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype. \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eArunima Datta, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Texas\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArunima Datta\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor at the Department of History, University of North Texas. She is the author of the multiple award-winning book \u003cem\u003eFleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya\u003c\/em\u003e (2021), which received the Sara A. Whaley Award from the National Women's Studies Association, the Gita Chaudhuri Award from the Western Association of Women Historians and the Stansky Award from the North American Conference of British Studies. Her earlier work on the history of travelling ayahs in Britain has also won the Carol Gold Award. She serves as an associate editor of \u003cem\u003eGender \u0026amp; History, Britain and the World\u003c\/em\u003e, and as an Associate Review Editor of the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Her works have appeared in scholarly journals, public history journals and magazines, and on BBC4.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53332979450163,"sku":"9780192848239","price":87.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/W9XtMn5TGw9780192848239.webp?v=1778273435","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/waiting-on-empire-a-history-of-indian-travelling-ayahs-in-britain-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}