Women: and social reform in modern India - a reader /

Contributed articles on social reforms and status of women in 19th and 20th century India.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sarkar, Sumith (Editor), Sarkar, Thanika (Editor)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Bangalore : Permanent Black, 2007.
Subjects:
Social problems -- India -- 19th century. Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources. Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Sources. Social change. Social problems. > Social change -- India -- 19th century. Social change -- India -- 20th century. > Women -- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Women > Social problems -- India -- 20th century. -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century. > Women -- Social conditions. India.
Table of Contents:
  • Whose sati? Widow burning in early-nineteenth-century India / Anand A. Yang
  • Production of an official discourse on sati in early-nineteenth-century Bengal / Lata Mani
  • Education for women / Geraldine Forbes
  • Law, custom and statutory social reform : the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 / Lucy Carroll
  • Caste, widow-remarriage, and the reform of popular culture in colonial Bengal / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay
  • Vidyasagar and Brahmanical society / Sumit Sarkar
  • Customs in a peasant economy : women in colonial Haryana / Prem Chowdhry
  • Silencing heresy / Gauri Viswanathan
  • The daughters of Aryavarta / Madhu Kishwar
  • Viresalingam and the ideology of social change in Andhra / John and Karen Leonard
  • Conjugality and Hindu nationalism : resisting colonial reason and the death of a child-wife / Tanika Sarkar
  • Rebellious wives and dysfunctional marriages : Indian women's discourses and participation in the debates over restitution of conjugal rights and the child marriage controversy in the 1880s and 1890s / Padma Anagol
  • Punjab and the north-west / Kenneth Jones
  • Muslim women and the control of property in north India / Gregory C. Kozlowski
  • Prize-winning Adab : a study of five Urdu books written in response to the Allahabad Government Gazette notification / C.M. Naim
  • Sayyid Mumtaz ʻAli and Tahzib un-Niswan : women's rights in Islam and women's journalism in Urdu / Gail Minault
  • Gender and the politics of space : the movement for women's reform, 1857-1900 / Faisal Fatehali Devji
  • Women's question in the Dravidian movement, c. 1925-1948 / S. Anandhi
  • Multiple meanings : changing conceptions of matrilineal kinship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malabar / G. Arunima
  • Women and gender in the study of tribes in India / Virginius Xaxa
  • The second "women's war" and the emergence of democratic government in Manipur / Saroj N. Arambam Parratt and John Parratt
  • Gender in the critiques of colonialism and nationalism : locating the "Indian woman" / Mrinalini Sinha
  • Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code : a victory of symbol over substance? / Reba Som
  • Tracts against sati / Rammohan Roy
  • The woeful plight of Hindu women / Kailashbasini Devi
  • From Stripurusha Tulana / Tarabai Shinde
  • From Miscellaneous Writings / M.G. Ranade
  • The worship of women / Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.

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