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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0192664298 

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192664297

Author:  Arunima Datta 

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire 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. Delving 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. In 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.

Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain 1st Table of contents:

1. Becoming Travelling Ayahs and Supporting the Empire: Historical and Contextual Background
Travelling Ayahs as Part of the Traffic of Empire
‘Figuring’ Travelling Ayahs
Becoming a Travelling Ayah
Negotiating Responsibilities Onboard Ship: The Everyday Experiences of Travelling Ayahs
Subaltern Journeys: Relied Upon Yet Excluded
2. Waiting in the Heart of Empire: Abandoned Travelling Ayahs and the Contradictions of a Liberal Empire
‘Hurry Up and Wait’: Arrival in the Metropole
Travelling Ayahs and Regulatory Regimes
Travelling Ayahs Asserting Rights: Waiting as a Space of Action
Attachment to a Transient Work-Life
3. Creative Resilience in Crisis: Making Arguments and Evoking Sympathy
Emotions in the Archives: Travelling Ayahs Crafting Emotional Agency
Home, Family, and Shared Moralities: Emotional Appeals by Travelling Ayahs
Other Forms of Emotional Agency: Appealing for Sympathy in Hardship, Seeking Redress for Injustice, and Exerting Emotional Pressure
Agency in Crafting Emotional Bridges
4. Capitalizing on Waiting: Creative Use of Time by Travelling Ayahs
Waiting for Business: Entrepreneurial Activities by Travelling Ayahs
Waiting for a Situation: Securing Employment on Return Passages
Waiting for Non-materialistic Gains: Religion and Relationships
(Re)visioning Waiting as an Act with Purpose
5. Travelling Ayahs and Ayahs’ Homes: Humanitarianism, Evangelism, and Profit
The Ayahs’ Home
Welfare as Self-Care: Evangelism and Fundraising at the Ayahs’ Home
Labour-Brokering, Tours, and Donations
A Process of Negotiation: How Travelling Ayahs Engaged with the Ayahs’ Home
Recognizing Negotiations in ‘Humanitarianism’ and ‘Welfare’
6. Travellers’ Tales: Negotiating Waiting in Wars and ‘Exotic’ Spaces
Negotiating Waiting during the Great War
Negotiating Waiting during World War II
Negotiating Waiting in ‘Exotic’ Places
Remembering the Tales of Subaltern Adventures
Conclusion
(Re)visioning Waiting in Migration Histories
Positioning the Familiar Stranger in British History
Bringing Global South Asian Women’s Labour History to the Fore
The Past in the Present

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