Courtly Indian women in late imperial India

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Courtly Indian women in late imperial India

by Angma Dey Jhala

(The body, gender and culture, no. 1)

Pickering & Chatto, 2008

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Published 2016 by Routledge

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.

目次

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890-1947
  • Chapter 2 Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modern Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States
  • Chapter 3 A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana
  • Chapter 4 Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Materrnal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar
  • Chapter 5 Troubles in Indore, The Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously
  • Chapter 6 From 'Pardah to Parliament': Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial India
  • Chapter 7 Epilogue

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