[PDF] Women And Labour In Late Colonial India eBook

Author : Samita Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 1999-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521453631

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Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

Author : Ravi Ahuja
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 9789382381211

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Papers presented at the International Workshop on "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia", held at Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen in 2011.

Author : Jayasankar Krishnamurty
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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This collection of essays on Indian women is an important contribution to both Indian historiography and feminist studies. The book covers such topics as the Hindu Widow's Remarriage act of 1856, female infanticide, property rights, social welfare systems, and the struggle for the right to vote.

Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521526586

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An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.

Author : Bharati Ray
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 30,81 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN :

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The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.

Author : Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789053564035

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Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.

Author : Geraldine Hancock Forbes
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Women
ISBN : 9788180280177

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This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.

Author : Geraldine Forbes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 1996-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521268127

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The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed their lives, enabling them to take part in public life. Through the women's own accounts, the author has compiled an accessible and immediate record of their achievements over the past two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022638764X

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By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."