Download or read book Women and The Post Colonial Indian Stale written by Dr. Nilendra Bardiar and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this book is to look into some aspects of law-making, policy formulations, and implementation of the constitutional and legal provisions etc. by the post-colonial state in India vis-à-vis gender justice and women "empowerment" and will try to examine the State's perspective on gender relations. This will lead to theorizing the nature and character of the Post-colonial State from a gender perspective. The book will also go into the participation of women in the movement for their rights and the role of women's socio-political organizations in the process. While the primary concern of the book will be the post-colonial period, yet, to put the things in the right perspective and to bring the context, it may be necessary to dwell briefly upon the pre-1947 period also (especially the period of 1920 onwards) to understand the working of the post-colonial state in the aftermath of Independence. During the colonial period, the construction of woman as an individual and as a social-familial being in the Gandhian discourse and Nehruvian vision's divergence from it in the post-colonial period is too important to be left out the scope of this book.
Download or read book Women of India written by Bharati Ray and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.
Download or read book Women of India written by Bharati Ray and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book En Gendering India written by Sangeeta Ray and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExplores the relation of gender and nation in postcolonial writing about India./div
Download or read book Recasting Women written by Kumkum Sangari and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and social life of India in the last decade has given rise to a variety of questions concerning the nature and resilience of patriarchal systems in a transitional and post-colonial society. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recognize that every aspect of reality is gendered, and that such a recognition involves a dismantling of the ideological presuppositions of the so-called gender neutral ideologies, as well as the boundaries of individual disciplines.
Download or read book Exploring Gender Equations written by Biswamoy Pati and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles on social status of middle class women in India presented earlier at a conference held at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi in October 2003.
Download or read book Women and the Post Colonial Indian State written by Nilendra Bardiar and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The object of this book is to look into some aspects of law making, policy formulations, and implementation of the constitutional and legal provisions etc. by the post-colonial state in India vis-a-vis gender justice and women "empowerment" and will try to examine the State's perspective on gender relations.This will lead to theorizing the nature and character of the Post-colonial State from a gender perspective. The book will also go into the participation of women in the movement for their rights and the role of women socio-political organizations in the process. While the primary concern of the book will be the post-colonial period, yet, to put the things in the right perspective and to bring the context, it may be necessary to dwell briefly upon the pre-1947 period also (especially the period of 1920 onwards) to understand the working of the post-colonial state in the aftermath of Independence. During the colonial period, the construction of woman as an individual and as a social-familial being in the Gandhian discourse and Nehruvian vision's divergence from it in the post-colonial period were too important to be left out of the scope of this book.
Download or read book The Scandal of the State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the “enlightened,” postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself. The Scandal of the State develops through a series of compelling case studies, each of which centers around an incident exposing the contradictory position of the Indian state vis-à-vis its female citizens and, ultimately, the inadequacy of its commitment to women’s rights. Sunder Rajan focuses on the custody battle over a Muslim child bride, the compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women in state institutional care, female infanticide in Tamilnadu, prostitution as labor rather than crime, and the surrender of the female outlaw Phoolan Devi. She also looks at the ways the Uniform Civil Code presented many women with a stark choice between allegiance to their religion and community or the secular assertion of individual rights. Rich with theoretical acumen and activist passion, The Scandal of the State is a powerful critique of the mutual dependence of women and the state on one another in the specific context of a postcolonial modernity.
Download or read book Women in Colonial India written by Geraldine Hancock Forbes and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Collection Of Essays On Politics, Medicine And Historiography Is About Those India Women Who Began To Be Educated And To Pay Some Role In Public Life.
Download or read book Women of India written by Otto Rothfield and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Women of India" by Otto Rothfield is a book about Indian women, their social life, and customs. Excerpt: "Many generations have passed and other races—Hunas and Gujjars and Mongols—have invaded India. And asceticism has squeezed the people in[6] its dry hand, and there has been war and bigotry and pestilence. Yet even now the teachings are not quite forgotten. Many a one there still is among the women of India, of whom it can with truth be said: "She is even as a golden lotus."
Download or read book Learning femininity in colonial India 1820 1932 written by Tim Allender and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state. In the early nineteenth century the role of some women occupying colonial spaces in India was to provide emotional sustenance to expatriate European males serving away from the moral strictures of Britain. However, powerful colonial statecraft intervened in the middle of the century to racialise these women and give them a new official, moral purpose. Only some females could be teachers, chosen by their race as reliable transmitters of genteel accomplishment codes of European, middle-class femininity. Yet colonial female activism also had impact when pressing against these revised, official gender constructions. New geographies of female medical care outreach emerged. Roman Catholic teaching orders, whose activism was sponsored by piety, sought out other female colonial peripheries, some of which the state was then forced to accommodate. Ultimately the national movement built its own gender thresholds of interchange, ignoring the unproductive colonial learning models for females, infected as these models had become with the broader race, class and gender agendas of a fading raj. This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.
Download or read book Women in Colonial India written by Jayasankar Krishnamurty and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on Indian women is an important contribution to both Indian historiography and feminist studies. The book covers such topics as the Hindu Widow's Remarriage act of 1856, female infanticide, property rights, social welfare systems, and the struggle for the right to vote.
Download or read book The Scandal of the State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.
Download or read book Domesticity in Colonial India written by Judith E. Walsh and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1880s, Hindu domestic life and its most intimate relationships had become contested ground. For urban, middle-class Indians, the Hindu woman was at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and traditional home and family life. This book sets this debate within the context of a nineteenth-century world where bourgeois, European ideas on the home had become part of a transnational, hegemonic domestic discourse, a 'global domesticity.' But Walsh's interest is more in hybridity than hegemony as she explores what women themselves learned when men sought to teach them through the Indian advice literature of the time. As a younger generation of Indian nationalists and reformers attempted to undercut the authority of family elders and create a 'new patriarchy' of more nuclear and exclusive relations with their wives, elderly women in extended Hindu families learned that their authority in family life (however contingent) was coming to an end.
Download or read book The Scandal of the State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.
Download or read book Women and the Post colonial Indian State written by Nilendra Bardiar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Female Infanticide in India written by Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2005-01-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.
