Women and Labour in Late Colonial India
Title | Women and Labour in Late Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Samita Sen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 1999-05-06 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521453631 |
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.
Gender and Class
Title | Gender and Class PDF eBook |
Author | Samita Sen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Sex discrimination in employment |
ISBN |
Working Lives & Worker Militancy
Title | Working Lives & Worker Militancy PDF eBook |
Author | Ravi Ahuja |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | India |
ISBN | 9789382381211 |
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.
Women in Colonial India
Title | Women in Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Jayasankar Krishnamurty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Social Science |
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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.
Bonded Histories
Title | Bonded Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Gyan Prakash |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2003-10-30 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521526586 |
An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.
Women in Modern India
Title | Women in Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Forbes |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1996-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521268127 |
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.
Women in Colonial India
Title | Women in Colonial India PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Hancock Forbes |
Publisher | Orient Blackswan |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Women |
ISBN | 9788180280177 |
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.