Maid- Master Relationship in India:

Maid-master sexual relationship 

 The maid –master sexual relation has its genesis in Victorian England where there are umpteen tales of Victorian maid’s sleeping with the master.  The same thing translated to India, but here it was a necessity, as well as lonely English men in far-off plantations and distant jungles, had nothing to do and it was inevitable that they picked up sexual liaisons with maids. It was a need and I wonder if anything could have stopped it. Along with the maid whiskey was also an accompaniment and it added to the exotic scenario.

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 What did the maids think of such sexual liaisons? this is brought out in the movie " Before the rains "starring Nandita Das and Rahul Bose. Nandita Das plays the role of the maid who loves an English Sahib in South India. The fact is the maids loved it and it was a competition that would sleep with the master. To be undressed by the master was a status symbol. This is what one can glean from the literature of that period. Never the less the maid sahib relation is part of English folklore and along with other British gifts this also has to be accepted and what of Indians? I think it’s a lot more common in India after the English left than people know or dare to acknowledge. In the cantonments, I have come across tens of such relationships.