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Behind the veil : resistance, women and the everyday in colonial South Asia / edited by Anindita Ghosh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.Description: x, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230553446 (alk. paper)
  • 0230553443 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.48/8914 22
  • 305.40954 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1742 .G427b 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
From the symbolic to the open : women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra / Padma Anagol -- Small acts of rebellion : women tell their photographs / Geraldine Forbes -- Wicked widows : law and faith in nineteenth-century public sphere debates / Tanika Sarkar -- Subtle subversions and presumptuous interventions : reforming women's health in Bhopal State in the early twentieth century / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- Gender, subalternity, and silence : recovering convict women's experiences from histories of transportation, c. 1780-1857 / Clare Anderson -- The litigious widow : inheritance disputes in colonial north India, 1875-1911 / Nita Verma Prasad -- A world of their very own : religion, pain, and subversion in Bengali homes in the nineteenth century / Anindita Ghosh.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HQ1742 .G427b 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 00000069802

Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the symbolic to the open : women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra / Padma Anagol -- Small acts of rebellion : women tell their photographs / Geraldine Forbes -- Wicked widows : law and faith in nineteenth-century public sphere debates / Tanika Sarkar -- Subtle subversions and presumptuous interventions : reforming women's health in Bhopal State in the early twentieth century / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- Gender, subalternity, and silence : recovering convict women's experiences from histories of transportation, c. 1780-1857 / Clare Anderson -- The litigious widow : inheritance disputes in colonial north India, 1875-1911 / Nita Verma Prasad -- A world of their very own : religion, pain, and subversion in Bengali homes in the nineteenth century / Anindita Ghosh.

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