Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader vol 1

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by  Sumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar

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Women and
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A Reader
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Contents
Introduction
TANIKA SARKAR AND SUMIT SARKAR 1
VOLUME I
PART A: HISTORICAL RF.SEARCH 19
1 Whose Sati?: Widow Burning in Early-
Nineteenth-Century India
ANANoA. 21
YANG
2 Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in
Early-Nineteenth-Century Bengal
LATAMANI 53
3 Education for Women
GERALDINE FORBES 83
4 Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu
Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856
LUCY CARROll 113
5 Caste, Widow-Remarriage, and the Reform of Popular
Culture in Colonial Bengal
SEKHAR BANDYOPADHYAY 145
6 Vidyasagar and Brahmanical Society
SUMIT SARKAR 172
7 Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in
Colonial Haryana
PREM CHOWDHRY 215
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8 Silencing Heresy
GAURI VISWANATIIAN 249
9 The Daughters of Aryavarta
MAoHU KlSHWAR 298
10 Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change
in Andhra
}OHN AND KAREN LEONARD 341
11 Conjugality and Hindu Nationalism: Resisting
Colonial Reason and the Death of a Child-Wife
TANIKA SARKAR 385
12 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
pA DMA .ANAGOL 420
VOLUME II
13 Punjab and the North-West
KENNETH} ONES 1
14 Muslim Women and the Control of Property in
North India
GREGORY C. KOZLOWSKI 20
15 Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books
Written in Response to the Allahabad Government
Gazette Notification
C.M. NAIM 44
16 Sayyid Mumtaz /\li and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's
Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu
GAIL MINAULT 70
17 Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for
Women's Reform, 1857-1900
FAISAL FATEHALI DEVJI 99
CONTENTS vu
18 Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement
c. 1925-1948
S. ANANDHI 115
19 Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of
Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-
Century Malabar
G.ARUNIMA 138
20 Women and Gender in the Study ofTribes in India
VIRGINIUS XAxA 169
21 The 'Second Women's War' and the Emergence of
Democratic Government in Manipur
SAROJ N. PARRATT AND JOHN PARRATT 195
ARAMBAM
22 Gender in the Critique of Colonialism and
Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman'
MRINAUNI SINHA 211
23 Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory
of Symbol over Substance?
REBA SOM 243
PART 8: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS 275
24 Tracts against Sati
RAMMOHAN Rov 277
25 The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women
l<AILASHBASINI DEVI 288
26 From Stripurusha Tulana
T ARABAI SHINDE 313
27 From Miscellaneous Writings
M.G. RANAOE 334
28. The Worship of Women
BEGUM ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSAIN 376
Copyright Sta.temmt 386