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This is the second edition of the original book published in 1998, and as an OIP in 1999, about Rukhmabai's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy as well as the colonial legal establishment in late 19th c. India. It includes a new Afterword in which the author examines the libel suit into which the protagonist was dragged, even as she was fighting a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights'.

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PROLOGUE; CH 1 RUKHMABAI AND HER CASE; CH 2. A DISPUTED CHARTER; CH 3. THE LAW ON TRIAL; CH 4. A CHALLENGE TO CIVILIZED SOCIETY; CH 5. THE BRUTAL EMBRACE: LET IT STAND; EPILOGUE. APPENDICES ? A - E. INDEX

Enslaved Daughters

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      Publisher: OUP India
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9780195695731, 978-0195695731
      ISBN10: 0195695739

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This is the second edition of the original book published in 1998, and as an OIP in 1999, about Rukhmabai's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy as well as the colonial legal establishment in late 19th c. India. It includes a new Afterword in which the author examines the libel suit into which the protagonist was dragged, even as she was fighting a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights'.

      Table of Contents
      PROLOGUE; CH 1 RUKHMABAI AND HER CASE; CH 2. A DISPUTED CHARTER; CH 3. THE LAW ON TRIAL; CH 4. A CHALLENGE TO CIVILIZED SOCIETY; CH 5. THE BRUTAL EMBRACE: LET IT STAND; EPILOGUE. APPENDICES ? A - E. INDEX

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