Women and social reform in modern India Vol. I

By:

Sarkar Sumit

Contributor(s):

Sarkar Tanika

Publication details: New Delhi Permanent Black 2008Description: 465pISBN:

9780253220493

Subject(s):

Women --India --Social conditions --19th century. Women --India --Social conditions --20th century. Social problems --India --19th century. Social problems --India --20th century. Social change --India --19th century. Social change --India

DDC classification:

305.420000 SAR-I

Contents:

Table of contents Introduction TANIKA SARKAR AND SUMIT SARKAR ; PART A: HISTORICAL RESEARCH ; Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century India ANAND A. YANG ; Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal LATA MANI; Education for Women GERALDINE FORBES ; Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 LUCY CARROLL ; Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in Colonial Bengal SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society SUMIT SARKAR ; Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana PREM CHOWDHRY ; Silencing Heresy GAURI VISWANATHAN ; The Daughters of Aryavarta MADHU KISHWAR ; Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change in Andhra JOHN AND KAREN LEONARD ; Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism: Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife TANIKA SARKAR ; 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 PADMA ANAGOL ; Punjab and the North-West KENNETH JONES ; Muslim Women and the Control of Property in North India GREGORY C. KOZLOWSKI ; Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification C.M. NAIM ; Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu GAIL MINAULT ; Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900 FAISAL FATEHALI DEVJI ; Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement c. 1925-1948 S. ANANDHI ; Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Malabar G. ARUNIMA ; Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India VIRGINIUS XAXA ; The 'Second Women's War' and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur SAROJ N. ARAMBAM PARRATT AND JOHN PARRATT ; Gender in the Critique of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' MRINALINI SINHA ; Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory of Symbol over Substance? REBA SOM ; PART B: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS ; Tracts against Sati RAMMOHAN ROY ; The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women KAILASHBASINI DEVI ; From Stripurusha Tulana TARABAI SHINDE ; From Miscellaneous Writings M.G. RANADE; The Worship of Women BEGUM ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSAIN

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Table of contents
Introduction TANIKA SARKAR AND SUMIT SARKAR ;
PART A: HISTORICAL RESEARCH ;
Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-Nineteenth-Century India ANAND A. YANG ;
Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal LATA MANI;
Education for Women GERALDINE FORBES ;
Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 LUCY CARROLL ;
Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular Culture in Colonial Bengal SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY
Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society SUMIT SARKAR ;
Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana PREM CHOWDHRY ;
Silencing Heresy GAURI VISWANATHAN ;
The Daughters of Aryavarta MADHU KISHWAR ;
Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change in Andhra JOHN AND KAREN LEONARD ;
Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism: Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife TANIKA SARKAR ;
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 PADMA ANAGOL ;
Punjab and the North-West KENNETH JONES ;
Muslim Women and the Control of Property in North India GREGORY C. KOZLOWSKI ;
Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification C.M. NAIM ;
Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu GAIL MINAULT ;
Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900 FAISAL FATEHALI DEVJI ;
Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement c. 1925-1948 S. ANANDHI ;
Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Malabar G. ARUNIMA ;
Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India VIRGINIUS XAXA ;
The 'Second Women's War' and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur SAROJ N. ARAMBAM PARRATT AND JOHN PARRATT ;
Gender in the Critique of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' MRINALINI SINHA ;
Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory of Symbol over Substance? REBA SOM ;
PART B: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS ;
Tracts against Sati RAMMOHAN ROY ;
The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women KAILASHBASINI DEVI ;
From Stripurusha Tulana TARABAI SHINDE ;
From Miscellaneous Writings M.G. RANADE;
The Worship of Women BEGUM ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSAIN

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