Recasting Women - Essays in Colonial History

Author: Kumkum Sangari
Sudesh Vaid/
Publisher: Kali/Zubaan
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 371
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186706038

Description

Contents

Recasting Women : An Introduction

Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Oientalism, Nationalism and a Script for the Past

Contentious Traditions : The Debate on Sati in Colonial India

Marginalization of Women's Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal

That Magic Time : Women in the Telangana People's Struggle

Feminist Consciousness in Women's Journals in Hindi : 1910-1920

The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question

Tracing Savitri's Pedigree : Victorian Racism and the Image of Women in Indo-Anglian Literature

Working Women in Colonial Bengal : Modernization and Marginalization

Customs in a Peasant Economy : Women in Colonial Haryana

Rural Women in Oudh 1917-1947 : Baba Ram Chandra and the Women's Question

Notes on contributors