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Author Forbes, Geraldine Hancock, 1943-

Title Women in modern India / Geraldine Forbes
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 289 pages) : illustrations
Series New Cambridge history of India ; IV, 2
New Cambridge history of India ; IV, 2.
Contents Reform in the nineteenth century: efforts to modernize women's roles -- Education for women -- The emergence of women's organizations -- The movement for women's rights -- Women in the nationalist movement -- Women's work in colonial India -- A time of transition -- Women in independent India
Summary In this study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organizations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947
Analysis Women History
India
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-281) and index
Notes English
Print version record
In New Cambridge history of India no:4.2
SUBJECT Börngen, ... gnd
Subject Women -- India -- History -- 19th century
Women -- India -- History -- 20th century
Women -- India -- History -- 20th century
Women
Frau
Vrouwen.
Women -- India -- History -- 19th century.
Women -- India -- History -- 20th century.
Femmes -- Inde -- 19e siècle.
Femmes -- Inde -- 20e siècle.
Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Inde -- 20e siècle.
Femmes -- Conditions sociales -- Inde -- 19e siècle.
Geschichte 1800-1980.
India
Indien
India.
Voor-Indië.
Inde -- Histoire.
Inde -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle.
Inde -- Conditions sociales -- 20e siècle.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511468858
0511468857
9781139055703
1139055704
9781139055703
0521268125
9780521268127