Author: Kumkum Sangari
Sudesh Vaid/
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 371
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186706038
Description
Contents
Recasting Women : An Introduction
Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Oientalism, Nationalism and a Script for the Past
Contentious Traditions : The Debate on Sati in Colonial India
Marginalization of Women's Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal
That Magic Time : Women in the Telangana People's Struggle
Feminist Consciousness in Women's Journals in Hindi : 1910-1920
The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question
Tracing Savitri's Pedigree : Victorian Racism and the Image of Women in Indo-Anglian Literature
Working Women in Colonial Bengal : Modernization and Marginalization
Customs in a Peasant Economy : Women in Colonial Haryana
Rural Women in Oudh 1917-1947 : Baba Ram Chandra and the Women's Question
Notes on contributors