Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia

by Anindita Ghosh

Overview

This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230553446
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/02/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

PADMA ANAGOL Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, UK CLARE ANDERSON Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK GERALDINE FORBES Distinguised Teaching Professor, State University of New York Oswego, USA ANINDITA GHOSH Lecturer in Modern History, University of Manchester, UK SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Nottingham Trent University, UK NITA VARMA PRASAD Assistant Professor of History, East Stroudsburg University, USA TANIKA SARKAR Professor of Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Table of Contents

Introduction Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell Their Photographs; G.Forbes The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-1911; N.V.Prasad Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth Century Public Sphere; T.Sarkar Gender, Subalternity and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-1857; C.Anderson A World of Their Very Own: Religion, Pain and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century; A.Ghosh Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century; S.Lambert-Hurley From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra; P.Anagol

Editorial Reviews

'...an important contribution to the study of women in colonial South Asia.' The International Journal of Asian Studies

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