{"product_id":"waiting-on-empire-arunima-datta-9780192848239","title":"Waiting on Empire: A History of Indian Travelling Ayahs in Britain","description":"The 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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Arunima Datta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192848232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192848239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.30d","brand":"Arunima Datta","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227645341951,"sku":"9780192848239","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90c6bb70-8a16-4c8c-8700-02ea0d6ad610.jpg?v=1692809835","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waiting-on-empire-arunima-datta-9780192848239","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}