Behind the Veil : Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia / by Anindita Ghosh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ghosh, Anindita, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--History.

Asia.

Clinical psychology.

Social history.

Civilization--History.

Civilization.

Sex.

History, Modern.

Asian History.

Clinical Psychology.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Gender Studies.

Modern History.

Local Subjects:

Asian History.

Clinical Psychology.

Social History.

Cultural History.

Gender Studies.

Modern History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra; 3 Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell their Photographs; 4 Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-century Public Sphere Debates; 5 Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century; 6 Gender, Subalternity, and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-1857

7 The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-19118 A World of their Very Own: Religion, Pain, and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612198274

9781282198272

1282198270

9780230583672

0230583679

OCLC:

432712999