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Author : Geraldine Hancock Forbes
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 8180280179
This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.
Author : Jayasankar Krishnamurty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X001664164
This collection of essays on Indian women is an important contribution to both Indian historiography and feminist studies. The book covers such topics as the Hindu Widow's Remarriage act of 1856, female infanticide, property rights, social welfare systems, and the struggle for the right to vote.
Author : Indira Ghose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040378559
Drawing on long-neglected travel writings by British women in India, this study looks at different aspects that women focus on as opposed to men, particularly in their encounters with Indian women in the zenana. Located at the cross-roads of feminist theory and colonial discourse theory, the book examines the power relations inscribed into the traveller's gaze.
Author : Judith E. Walsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742529371
By the 1880s, Hindu domestic life and its most intimate relationships had become contested ground. For urban, middle-class Indians, the Hindu woman was at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and traditional home and family life. This book sets this debate within the context of a nineteenth-century world where bourgeois, European ideas on the home had become part of a transnational, hegemonic domestic discourse, a 'global domesticity.' But Walsh's interest is more in hybridity than hegemony as she explores what women themselves learned when men sought to teach them through the Indian advice literature of the time. As a younger generation of Indian nationalists and reformers attempted to undercut the authority of family elders and create a 'new patriarchy' of more nuclear and exclusive relations with their wives, elderly women in extended Hindu families learned that their authority in family life (however contingent) was coming to an end.
Author : Sukla Chatterjee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429944390
In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information between the colonizers and their subjects. This book explores the idea of gazing through literature in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it focuses on four different genres of literary writing where nineteenth-century Bengali women writers look back at the British colonizers. In the process, the European culture becomes a static point of reference, and the chapters in the book show the ideological, social, cultural, political, and deeper, emotional interactions between the colonized and the colonizer. The book also addresses the lack of sufficient primary sources authored by Bengali women on their European counterparts by anthologizing different available genres. Taking into account literary narratives from the colonized and the less represented side of the divide, such as a travelogue, fantasy fiction, missionary text and journal articles, the book represents the varying opinions and perspectives vis-à-vis the European women. Using an interdisciplinary approach charting the fields of Indology, colonial studies, sociology, literature/literary historiography, South-Asian feminism, and cultural studies, this book makes an important contribution to the field of South Asian Studies, studies of empire, and to Indian women’s literary history.
Author : Janaki Nair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004082548
Author : Samita Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521453639
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 economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 0415525594
Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 486166179X
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Anglo-Indian fiction
ISBN : 8125021116
Drawing Upon A Wide Range And Variety Of Literary And Non-Literary Sources Of Nineteenth Century British India, Woman And Empire Examines Perceptions Of Gender Over The 1858 1900 Period. The Book Focuses On Representations Of White And Indian Women, In Addition To Women Of Mixed Races, In Fiction As Well As In Colonial Newspapers And Journals.
Author : Angma Dey Jhala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317314448
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.
Author : Sangeeta Ray
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822382805
En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation’s goal of self-rule was expected to enable women’s full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their “savage” male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray’s study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism. Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
Author : Indrani Sen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : UOM:39015080549994
The white women of colonial India wrote extensively during their years of residence in India. This anthology brings together a fascinating collection of such European women's narratives. Mapped along the historical shifts that took place over the hundred-year period, the book captures the many facets and nuances of gender relations across racial divide. Imaginatively organised around key sites of contact, the narratives are arranged in fourteen thematic clusters. This book will appeal to readers interested in gender and colonialism and the writings of the Raj.
Author : Jyoti Puri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135962661
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Judith E. Walsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742577350
Domesticity in Colonial India offers a trenchant analysis of the impact of imperialism on the personal, familial, and daily structures of colonized people's lives. Exploring the 'intimacies of empire,' Judith E. Walsh traces changing Indian gender relations and the social reconstructions of the late nineteenth century. For urban middle-class Indians of this time, the Hindu woman and her domestic world were at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and indigenous home and family life. The practices of family, home, and daily life that resulted would define the Hindu woman of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and the domestic worlds in which she was embedded. With its rich and compelling use of primary sources, this book will be invaluable not only to scholars and students of South Asian history, but also to a general audience interested in women's history and colonialism. The accompanying website includes a full array of the authorOs translations of never-before-studied Bengali-language domestic manuals.