Women, Gender and History in India
eBook - ePub

Women, Gender and History in India

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Women, Gender and History in India

About this book

Women, Gender and History in India examines Indian history through a thematic lens of women and gender across different contexts.

Through an inter-disciplinary approach, Nita Kumar uses sources from literature, folklore, religion, and art to discuss historical and anthropological ways of interpreting the issues surrounding women and gender in history. As part of the scholarly movement away from a Grand Narrative of South Asian history and culture, this volume places emphasis on the diversity of women and their experiences. It does this by including analyses of many different primary sources together with discussion around a wide variety of theoretical and methodological debates – from the mixed role of colonial law and education to the conundrum of a patriarchy that worships the Goddess while it strives to keep women in subservience.

This textbook is essential reading for those studying Indian history and women and gender studies.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781000898200

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Gender in South Asia
  10. 2 Ancient India
  11. 3 Buddhism and the Emergence of Hinduism: The Maurya and Gupta Periods
  12. 4 The Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Dynasties
  13. 5 The Colonial Period: Changes in Work Roles
  14. 6 The Colonial Period: Changes in Socialisation and Education
  15. 7 The Colonial Period Into the Present: Marriage, Widowhood, Reform
  16. 8 Nationalism and Partition
  17. 9 Gender, Women, and Hinduism
  18. 10 Gender, Women, and Islam
  19. 11 Sexuality, Films, and the Arts
  20. Index