Content;
Introduction Charu Gupta;
Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the Historiography of Colonial India Mrinalini Sinha;
Contested Sacrifice: Sati, Sovereignty and Social Reform in Colonial India Andrea Major;
Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates Tanika Sarkar;
Educated Muslim Women: Real and Ideal Gail Minault;
Re-inscribing ‘Womanliness’: Gendered Spaces and Public Debates in Early Modern Keralam J. Devika;
Print and Bazaari Literature: Jhagrras/Kissas and Gendered Reform in Early Twentieth Century Punjab
Anshu Malhotra;
Theatre and Gender in Colonial India: Foregrounding Actresses’ Question Lata Singh;
Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity in Inter-Caste Marriages in the Colonial Period Prem Chowdhry;
Caste, Colonialism and the Reform of Gender: Perspective from Western India Anupama Rao;
Women, Abductions and Religious Identities in Colonial Bengal Pradip Kumar Datta;
Memory and History: A Daughter’s Testimony Nonica Datta;
Archives and Sexuality: Vignettes from Colonial North India Charu Gupta;
Primary Texts Sarojini: Womanliness: A Brief Commentary and Translation by J. Devika;
Bhai Sadhu Singh: Witches: That is the Siyapa of the Self-Willed Women A Brief Commentary and Translation by Anshu Malhotra;
Shiv Sharma Mahopdeshak: Women’s Education A Brief Commentary and Translation by Charu Gupta;
Select Bibliography;
Notes on the Contributors;
Index