1. Global domesticity -- 2. Domesticity in colonial Calcutta -- 3. Rewriting patriarchy : the companionate marriage -- 4. Will the educated woman still cook and scour plates? -- 5. What's love got to do with it? -- 6. The well-ordered home -- 7. What women learned : rewriting patriarchy, writing the nation and the self -- App. A. Conversations with the wife -- App. B. A husband's advice to his wife -- App. C. The Laksmi of the home -- App. D. The duties of women -- App. E. Woman's dharma -- Supporting translations : a note on Bengali domestic manuals and their authors
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