In the early 1900s, elite Indian families started employing the ayah as a symbol of domestic modernity. Chapter 6 shows how the ayah’s intimate labor enabled the emergence of the “modern” Indian wife, who left the multigenerational joint family to live with her conjugal family. Deploying Aryan race theories, “upper”-caste Hindu, Muslim, and Parsis racialized their “low”-caste, “low”-class, and “tribal” ayahs. The racialized mistress–maid relationship was transposed to ancient Indian history, when fair-skinned Aryan invaders (supposed ancestors of “upper” castes) enslaved dark-skinned indigenous Dasas/Dasis (supposed ancestors of “low”-caste servants). South Asian elites sentimentalized the ayah, just like the British did. However, newspapers and official archives reveal cases of Indian elites financially and sexually abusing their ayahs. Some elite Indians took ayahs to Britain and abandoned them, just like British families did. Despite growing anti-colonial nationalism, Indian elite nationalists forged transracial alliances with British employers in India and repeatedly blocked legislation that sought to empower domestic servants and make employers accountable.