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Drawing of an Indian Ayah from 1864 and photo of professor Victoria Haskins
22
Jul
2025

Connecting the Dots: Ayahs and Empire in Australian Settler Society

Lecture

What can the stories of South Asian ayahs – nursemaids and domestic servants – tell us about the significance of race and women’s domestic labour in Australia’s settler colonial history – and why do these stories remain so elusive? In this talk, Victoria Haskins reflects on the obscure lives of…

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