Description |
372 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Recasting women : an introduction / Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid -- Whatever happened to the Vedic dasi? : orientalism, nationalism and a script for the past / Uma Chakravarti -- Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani -- Marginalization of women's popular culture in nineteenth century Bengal / Sumanta Banerjee -- That magic time : women in the Telangana people's struggle / Vasantha Kannabiran and K. Lalitha -- Feminist consciousness in women's journals in Hindi : 1910-1920 / Vir Bharat Talwar -- The nationalist resolution of the women's question / Partha Chatterjee -- Tracing Savitri's pedigree : Victorian racism and the image of women in Indo-Anglian literature / Susie Tharu |
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Working women in colonial Bengal : modernization and marginalization / Nirmala Banerjee -- Customs in a peasant economy : women in colonial Haryana / Prem Chowdhry -- Rural women in Oudh 1917-1947 : Baba Ram Chandra and the women's question / Kapil Kumar |
Notes |
Translation of: Regula |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
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SUBJECT |
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
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Author |
Sangari, Kumkum.
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Vaid, Sudesh, 1940-
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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LC no. |
90030892 |
ISBN |
0813515793 |
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0813515807 (paperback) |
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