TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - Widows, violence and death: the construction of imperial identity and memory by women in mourning across British India, 1857-1926
JO  - Gender and history
A1  - Smith, Ellen
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0953-5233
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12716
ID  - ref1
ER  -