Eric Stokes

Eric Stokes whose books include The Peasant and the Raj, is Smuts Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at Cambridge.

Letter

Sex and the Raj

17 April 1980

Eric Stokes writes: In my review of Kenneth Ballhatchet’s interesting book I suggested that the working of race and sex attitudes was more subtle and complex than he seemed ready to admit, and that he had allowed himself to be governed too rigidly by unexamined stereotypes. He now acknowledges that racial segregation of the sexes was not a sine qua non of the maintenance of alien rule in other European...

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