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Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader; Vol. 1

By: Sarkar, Sumit [Editor]Contributor(s): Sarkar, Tanika [Editor]Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2007Description: 465p. 26 cmISBN: 8178241994; 9788178241999Subject(s): Social change | Women -- India | Social problems | Women--Social conditions | IndiaDDC classification: 305.420954

Contents:

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 critiques 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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.420954 SAR/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		051867
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	305.420954 SAR/W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P04343

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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 critiques 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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