Benjamin Cohen 
In the club [EPUB ebook] 
Associational life in colonial South Asia

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.

Tabella dei contenuti

Introduction
1. Club rules
2. Around the club
3. The business of clubbing
4. Servants and staff
5. Race, class and the club
6. Women and the club
7. Postcolonial clubbing
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Circa l’autore

John Mac Kenzie is Emeritus Professor of Imperial History, Lancaster University and holds Honorary Professorships at Aberdeen, St Andrews and Stirling, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at Edinburgh.