@article{ref1,
title="Widows, violence and death: the construction of imperial identity and memory by women in mourning across British India, 1857-1926",
journal="Gender and history",
year="2023",
author="Smith, Ellen",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This article examines the work of British widows in the construction of their husbands' memory following their violent deaths in British India, during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Exploring the collections of a military, missionary and Indian Civil Service widow, it suggests that a specifically feminised culture of mourning nurtured imperial narratives. It moves between personal correspondence, to published accounts of frontier 'murders', to a new understanding of South Asian 'condolence meetings' and resolutions addressed to British widows, arguing that women were critical to the fashioning of men's identity in death and a broader colonial politics of grief.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0953-5233",
doi="10.1111/1468-0424.12716",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12716"
}