“Of Small Spaces Forgotten”

How does one recuperate the ordinary landscape from the nineteenth-century colonial archive? How do we access the everyday sites of work within domestic confines, populated by servants and women, who have left only small footprints in the historical archive? Using examples of nineteenth-century residences, Chattopadhyay will suggest some techniques of reading these ordinary spaces to argue that taken together, seen through a different analytic of materiality, they are potentially powerful.