Women of India : colonial and post-colonial periods

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Women of India : colonial and post-colonial periods

edited by Bharati Ray

（History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization, v. 9 . Colonial period ; pt. 3）

Sage Pulications, 2005

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"Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Politicization of personal laws: a study of colonial India / Flavia Agnes
  • Legislating the family in post-independence India / Patricia Uberoi
  • Reviewing Muslim women and marriage: a preliminary analysis of survey finding / Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon
  • Understanding the Dalit feminist identity / Gopal Guru
  • Women, health and demography: deficit of women in India / Leela Visaria
  • Imagined lovers: ideology, practice and social hierarchies / Prem Chowdhry
  • Friends and lovers: towards a social history of emotions in 19th and 20th century Kerala / G. Arunima
  • Violent acts: cultures, structures and retraditionalisation / Kumkum Sangari
  • A century and a half's journey: women's education in India, 1850s to 2000 / Aparna Basu
  • Women and formal and informal science / Anil K. Gupta and R.A. Mashelkar
  • Women and environment / Jayshree Vencatesan, R.J. Ranjit Daniels and Madhav Gadgil
  • Gendering agrarian issues: the Uttar Pradesh experience / Smita Tewari Jassal
  • Some dimensions of female employment in India / Sudha Deshpande
  • Women workers and industrial restructuring in two industries in Mumbai / Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah
  • Women and water: relationships, experiences, approaches / K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape
  • Women, hunger, and famine: Bengal, 1350/1943 / Parama Roy
  • A voice of protest: the writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) / Bharati Ray
  • Women and music: the case of North India / Amlan Das Gupta
  • Reassembling the modern: an Indian theatre map since independence / Anuradha Kapur
  • Women artists of rural India / Jyotindra Jain
  • Women patrons of art and architecture: the case of Stepwells of Gujarat / Jutta Jain-Neubauer
  • Political women: an overview of modern Indian developments / Tanika Sarkar
  • Citizenship and its discontents: a political history of women in Andhra / Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran
  • Is the women's movement on the move? / Gabriele Dietrich

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Description

This valuable reference work, the first volume in the SAGE series History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, offers insights into the lives of Indian women by taking into account the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender. The themes taken up in the various essays in this volume are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India. They revolve around a number of important central issues: - That the `woman question' was the chosen site for cultural confrontation between the colonial British and the colonized Indians; - That the freedom movement gave women the opportunity to break the monopoly of men over the political arena; - That despite legal and constitutional guarantees concerning the equality of the sexes, women in post-colonial India are struggling to be treated as equals. The essays are divided into six interrelated sections: Family/Law; Body/Sexuality; Knowledge System; Work; Creativity/Voices; and Politics. Within these broad frameworks, the 30 contributors to this volume explore the operation of power and women's resistance to it, and how they continue to play a role in modern-day India. Drawing on themes across disciplines and across India to raise our awareness of overt and covert discriminations against women, the book reminds us of the multiple ways in which women manage to survive and thrive despite familial, community and state neglect.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Bharati Ray PART ONE: FAMILY/LAW Politicization of Personal Laws: A Study of Colonial India - Flavia Agnes Legislating the Family in Post-Independence India - Patricia Uberoi Reviewing Muslim Women and Marriage - Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Finding Understanding the Dalit Feminist Identity - Gopal Guru PART TWO: BODY/SEXUALITY Women, Health and Demography - Leela Visaria Deficit of Women in India Imagined Lovers - Prem Chowdhry Ideology, Practice and Social Hierarchies Friends and Lovers - G Arunima Towards a Social History of Emotions in 19th and 20th Century Kerala Violent Acts - Kumkum Sangari Cultures, Structures and Retraditionalisation PART THREE: KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM A Century and a Half's Journey - Aparna Basu Women's Education in India, 1850s to 2000 Women and Formal and Informal Science - Anil K Gupta and R A Mashelkar Women and Environment - Jayshree Vencatesan, R J Ranjit Daniels and Madhav Gadgil PART FOUR: WORK Gendering Agrarian Issues - Smita Tewari Jassal The Uttar Pradesh Experience Some Dimensions of Female Employment in India - Sudha Deshpande Women Workers and Industrial Restructuring in Two Industries in Mumbai - Nandita Gandhi and Nandita Shah Women and Water - K J Joy and Suhas Paranjape Relationships, Experiences, Approaches Women, Hunger and Famine - Parama Roy Bengal, 1350/1943 PART FIVE: CREATIVITY/VOICES A Voice of Protest - Bharati Ray The Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) Women and Music - Amlan Das Gupta The Case of North India Reassembling the Modern - Anuradha Kapur An Indian Theatre Map since Independence Women Artists of Rural India - Jyotindra Jain Women Patrons of Art and Architecture - Jutta Jain-Neubauer The Case of Stepwells of Gujarat PART SIX: POLITICS Political Women - Tanika Sarkar An Overview of Modern Indian Developments Citizenship and its Discontents - Vasanth Kannabiran and Kalpana Kannabiran A Political History of Women in Andhra Is the Women's Movement on the Move? - Gabriele Dietrich

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