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Book SynopsisAn impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history
Trade ReviewWritten in easily accessible language . . . [this book is an] invaluable research and teaching [text] that can be put to very good effect.
* Feminist Formations *
Essays by Lata Mani, Sumit Sarkar, Madhu Kishwar, Tanika Sarkar, and others, along with the original writings of Ram Mohan Roy, Tarabai Shinde, and others make this volume a rich one that students of cultural studies, women's studies, and history should possess.July, 2010
* H-Asia, H-Net Reviews *
[A]n outstanding volume of first-rate scholarship on women and social reform in colonial India.
* Journal of Contemporary Asia *
[This book] brings together a very fine selection of scholarship on an important topic. . . . many of the essays collected in this volume continue to have an immense impact on our understanding of gender, and the changes wrought in gender relations by both the state and indigenous actors and organizations, in colonial India.Vol. 10.2 Fall 2009
-- Farina Mir * Journal of Col. & Colonial History e-jrnl *
Table of ContentsIntroduction TANIKA SARKAR AND SUMIT SARKAR
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 Critique 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
