Women and social reform in modern India : a reader / edited by Sumit Sarkar & Tanika Sarkar.

• Introduction / Tanika Sarkar, 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 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 @0300Women's War' and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur / Saroj N. Arambam Parratt, John Parratt -- Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the @0300Indian 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.

• Summary: Contributed articles on social reforms and status of women in 19th and 20th century India. 

Ämnesord

Social förändring  -- historia (sao)

Women  -- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Women  -- India -- Social conditions -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social problems  -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Social problems  -- India -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social change  -- India -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Social change  -- India -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social change  -- India -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Social change  -- India -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Social problems  -- India -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Social problems  -- India -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Kvinnor  -- historia -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Sociala rättigheter  -- historia (sao)

1800-talet  (sao)

1900-talet  (sao)

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