Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A ReaderSumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child marriage, as well as those governing marriage and property within different religious communities, continued to exert profound influence on Indian society and politics throughout the 20th century. In this collection, eminent historians Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar bring together some of the most important scholarly articles and primary source documents from the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
HISTORICAL RESEARCH | 13 |
1 Whose Sati? Widow Burning in EarlyNineteenthCentury India | 15 |
2 Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in EarlyNineteenthCentury Bengal | 38 |
3 Education for Women | 58 |
The Hindu Widows Remarriage Act of 1856 | 78 |
5 Caste WidowRemarriage and the Reform of Popular Culture in Colonial Bengal | 100 |
6 Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society | 118 |
Womens Rights in Islam and Womens Journalism in Urdu | 359 |
The Movement for Womens Reform 18571900 | 378 |
18 Womens Question in the Dravidian Movement c 19251948 | 389 |
Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Malabar | 404 |
20 Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India | 424 |
21 The Second Womens War and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur | 441 |
Locating the Indian Woman | 452 |
A Victory of Symbol over Substance? | 473 |
Women in Colonial Haryana | 146 |
8 Silencing Heresy | 169 |
9 The Daughters of Aryavarta | 201 |
10 Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change in Andhra | 230 |
Resisting Colonial Reason and the Death of a ChildWife | 259 |
Indian Womens Discourses and Participation in the Debates over Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and... | 282 |
13 Punjab and the NorthWest | 313 |
14 Muslim Women and the Control of Property in North India | 326 |
A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification | 342 |
CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS | 495 |
24 Tracts against Sati | 497 |
25 The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women | 504 |
26 From Stripurusha Tulana | 521 |
27 From Miscellaneous Writings | 535 |
28 The Worship of Women | 544 |
Copyright Statement | 551 |
Back cover | 553 |
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