The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement for both colonizers and colonized across the world. This study focuses on Indian traveling ayahs (female servants and nannies) who traveled between India and Britain, but often underwent periods of destitution in Britain before returning to India. Using case studies of destitute ayahs, this essay investigates how the British state, British persons and British institutions responded to the destitution of imperial subjects from overseas in Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study examines the social, legal and economic power dynamics underlying these responses, revealing a combination of confrontation and collaboration between migrant colonized subjects and those engaging with them in responding to contradictory imperial polices. The article highlights the agency of a neglected group of women who, in asserting their contribution to the Empire and their rights as imperial subjects, refused to accept a second-class form of Britishness.

大英帝国的扩张促进了殖民者和全世界殖民者的迁徙。这项研究的重点是印度旅游ayahs（女仆和保姆），他们曾在印度和英国之间旅行，但在返回印度之前，经常在英国经历了一段时期的贫困。通过对贫民窟的案例研究，本文研究了英国国家，英国人和英国机构如何应对十九世纪和二十世纪初来自海外的皇室臣民的毁灭。该研究考察了这些反应背后的社会，法律和经济力量动态，揭示了移民殖民者与与他们互动以应对矛盾的帝国警察之间的对抗和协作。这篇文章着重介绍了一群被忽视的妇女的代理机构，这些妇女在宣称自己对帝国的贡献和作为帝国臣民的权利时，