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susannederstein's review against another edition
was for class, did not have to read everything and fell behind
atsundarsingh's review
3.0
3.5 ⭐️ I think Ghosh is doing incredible work sleuthing out the lives of women in interracial relationships in colonial India. She finds them in white men's wills, in the courts, and in letters and wills that they wrote themselves. Most impressively, she manages to excavate them from places where they were even disguising themselves in the archive - passing, in a way, in order to obtain things for themselves and their children. While I ultimately found the final chapter on domestic violence and the court not quite as forceful as the rest, and found the chapter on upper class women to be more anecdotal in flavour than the rest, this was a good and useful book.
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