Tension is a polysemic term used across South Asia to describe the strains and scrapes of life, like ‘worry’ or ‘stress’ in Euro-American discourse. Yet in the formerly agro-pastoralist and upwardly mobile Gaddi community of Himalayan India, it is used by women with the qualifying ghar ki – ‘household’ – to indicate a deeper disruption to bodily humours, intimate relations, and household materiality. This article takes ghar ki tension, with a particular focus on the layered qualifier ghar, as a window into the precarity of middle-class domestic life as it is experienced in the bodies of the women who pursue it. Rather than focusing on the communicative functions of women's distress within the household, this article looks to the relational, affective, and material ways in which women see their bodies and houses as mutually constituted and disrupted. This approach reveals how women's domestic labour is both a source of dignity and a burden. This burden is experienced in ghar ki tension, in bodily symptoms of overheating, and visits from supernatural beings. This article suggests that ghar ki tension might offer a novel way of looking at distress as the psychic and embodied cost of upward social mobility beyond the Gaddi context.

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加尔基紧张局势：印度有抱负的中产阶级的家庭生活和苦恼

紧张是南亚地区使用的一个多义术语，用来描述生活中的压力和磨难，就像欧美话语中的“担忧”或“压力”。然而，在印度喜马拉雅山区以前的农牧民和向上流动的加迪社区，具有资格ghar ki  （“家庭”）的妇女使用这个词来表示对身体幽默、亲密关系和家庭物质性的更深层次的破坏。本文采用ghar ki张力，特别关注分层限定符ghar 。，作为了解中产阶级家庭生活不稳定的窗口，因为这种生活在追求这种生活的女性身上所经历。本文并没有关注女性在家庭中的痛苦的沟通功能，而是着眼于女性将自己的身体和房屋视为相互构成和破坏的关系、情感和物质方式。这种方法揭示了妇女的家务劳动既是尊严的来源，又是一种负担。这种负担会在加尔基紧张、身体过热症状以及超自然生物来访时经历。本文认为，加尔基紧张可能提供一种新颖的方式来看待痛苦，将其视为超越加迪背景的向上社会流动的心理和具体成本。