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Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry /

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian econo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sen, Samita
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/98038080.html
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