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Women in modern India

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The new Cambridge history of India ; IV, 2Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1996Description: xix, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521612401
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.409 FOR-W
Contents:
1. Reform in the Nineteenth Century: efforts to modernize women's roles 2. Education for women 3. The emergence of women's organizations 4. The movements for women's rights 5. Women in the nationalist movement 6. Women's work in colonial India 7. A time of transition 8.Women in independent India.
Summary: In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history 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 women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organisations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947.
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305.40 KAL-W Women in India : 305.40 LER-C The creation of patriarchy 305.4 PIL-K Key concepts in gender studies 305.409 FOR-W Women in modern India 305.409 SAM-G Gender, unpaid work and care in India 305.4095 CHA-T Tribal women : 305.42 AHM-L Living a feminist life

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-281) and index.

1. Reform in the Nineteenth Century: efforts to modernize women's roles 2. Education for women 3. The emergence of women's organizations 4. The movements for women's rights 5. Women in the nationalist movement 6. Women's work in colonial India 7. A time of transition 8.Women in independent India.

In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history 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 women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organisations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947.

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