Women and Social Reform in Modern India A Reader

Name: Women and Social Reform in Modern India A Reader
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ISBN: 9780253220493

ISBN-10: 0253220491

ISBN-13: 9780253220493

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar

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An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 7.05" wide x 10.04" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English

Tanika Sarkar is a historian of modern India and author of Bengal 1928-1934: The Politics of Protest and Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, Cultural Nationalism. She also coedited Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of Hindutva and Women and the Hindu Right.



Introduction




Historical Research



Whose Sati? Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century India




Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal




Education for Women




Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856




Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in Colonial Bengal




Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society




Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana




Silencing Heresy




The Daughters of Aryavarta




Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change in Andhra




Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism: Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife




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




Punjab and the North-West




Muslim Women and the Control of Property in North India




Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification




Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu




Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900




Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement c. 1925-1948




Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Malabar




Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India




The Second 'Women's War' and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur




Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman'




Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory of Symbol over Substance?




Contemporary Documents



Tracts against Sati




The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women




From Stripurusha Tulana




From Miscellaneous Writings




The Worship of Women



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