In the Club

Associational Life in Colonial South Asia

Benjamin Cohen, Andrew Thompson, John MacKenzie , Rebecca Mortimer

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Manchester University Press
03 March 2015

Asian history; Social groups: clubs & societies

Series: Studies in Imperialism

In the club presents a comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia, arguing for clubs as key contributors to South Asia's colonial associational life and civil society. Using government records, personal memoirs, private club records, and club histories themselves, In the club explores colonial club life with chapters arranged thematically: the legal underpinnings of clubs; their physical locations and compositions; their financial health; the role of servants and staff as employees of clubs; issues of race and class in clubs; women's clubs; and finally clubs in their postcolonial milieus. This book will be critical reading for scholars of South Asia, graduate students, and intellectually engaged club members alike. -- .

By: Benjamin Cohen
Series edited by: Andrew Thompson, John MacKenzie
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9780719096051
ISBN 10: 0719096057
Series: Studies in Imperialism
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 03 March 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Benjamin B. Cohen is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah

Reviews for In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South Asia

'Hopefully, scholars currently working on clubs around the British Empire will have the advantage of Cohen's work, which demonstrates the ways that clubs can reveal facts about the private life of the British Empire and details about civil society in South Asia.' AMY MILNE-SMITH, Wilfrid Laurier University, American Historical Review -- .