Men at Home

Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emory University and author of A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States, Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India, and The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India, among other books.

• Dramatis Personae  ixPrelude. Fragments of Family  1I. Legacies1. The Indian Modern  112. Homes Our Fathers Built  33II. Practices3. Duty  594. Discipline  855. Dignity  111III. History in a Visceral Register6. The Things Men Touched  1357. The Nature of Men  153Epilogue. Ym Ylimaf  169Acknowledgments  179Notes  183Bibliography  205Index  215

“This deeply felt book unsettles many of our common contrasts, including those between public and private, men and women, home and the world. By looking at an unusual set of archival and biographical materials from different parts of northern and western India during the colonial period and after, Gyanendra Pandey opens up a new vista for the study of men at home in modernity.” - Arjun Appadurai, Professor Emeritus of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University “Gyanendra Pandey’s historical account of men’s domestic lives in India breaks a resounding silence on the subject of men in the home and gender more broadly in nationalist histories. This allows him to arrive at an understanding of contemporary Indian society that is particularly pointed. This pathbreaking book, written with ease and elegance, makes a significant intervention and is an important addition to the field of feminist studies.” - Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, author of The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, and Citizenship in Postcolonial India "Men at Home by Gyanendra Pandey is a powerful, richly layered intervention in the study of masculinity, intimacy, and domesticity within the context of modern Indian society. With an acute sensitivity to historical and social complexity, Pandey interrogates the seemingly private sphere of the home to uncover its deep entanglement with public, political, and structural forces. In doing so, he reframes the home not as a feminine preserve, but as a space where male identities are negotiated, contested, and constantly reshaped." - Namrata (Kitaab)