Mother India Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha

Name: Mother India Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha
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ISBN: 9780472067152

ISBN-10: 047206715X

ISBN-13: 9780472067152

Edition: 2000

Authors: Katherine Mayo, Mrinalini Sinha

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Mother India, a polemical attack against Indian self-rule written by U.S. historian Katherine Mayo, was met with a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927. The controversy generated still reverberates and thus is still worth revisiting, some fifty years after Indian independence. In responding to Mayo's argument laid out in Mother India, the leaders of the national movement and the independent women's movement in India laid the foundations of an alliance that gave modern Indian nationalism its distinctive character. Mrinalini's Sinha's edition provides selections of this controversial book and commentary on the Mother India phenomenon. It also reprints a range of responses from…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 3/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.792



Introduction



Mother India



Foreword


Introduction: The Bus to Mandalay



The Argument



"Slave Mentality"



Marbles and Tops



Early to Marry and Early to Die



Spades are Spades


Interlude: The Grand Trunk Road



The Earthly God



Wages of Sin



Mother India



Behind the Veil



Woman the Spinster


Interlude: The Brahman



Less than Men



Behold, a Light!



Give Me Office or Give Me Death



We Both Meant Well



"Why Is Light Denied?"



A Counsel of Perfection


Interlude: Mr. Gandhi



The Sin of the Salvation Army



The Sacred Cow



The Quality of Mercy



In the House of Her Friends



Home of Stark Want



The Reforms



The Princes of India


Interlude: Into the North



Firebrands to Straw



Sons of the Prophet



The Holy City



The World-Menace



"Quacks Whom We Know"



Psychological Glimpses through the Economic Lens



Conclusion



Medical Evidence



Enfranchisement of Women


Select Contemporary Responses to Mother India



Miss Mayo Answered - Muthulakshmi Reddi



Correspondence - Women's Indian Association



Extracts from MOTHER INDIA KA JAWAB




Extracts from MEYO KUTRU MOYYA POYYA