Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Angma Dey Jhala

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Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-07-01
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt498 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Serie"The Body, Gender and Culture"
Antal sidor256
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781851969418

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Introduction; Chapter 1 Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890–1947; Chapter 2 Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modern Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States; Chapter 3 A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana; Chapter 4 Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Materrnal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar; Chapter 5 Troubles in Indore, The Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously; Chapter 6 From 'Pardah to Parliament': Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial India; Chapter 7 Epilogue;

'Angma Dey Jhala's welcome study ... will appeal to those scholars interested not just in women, gender and the princely states, but also race, sexuality and colonial law.' Gender, Place and Culture 'a groundbreaking work of history' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 'Jhala['s] ... work make[s] an unquestionable contribution to what is perhaps the most understudied arena in princely historiography - a gendered analysis that takes into account women's agency' The Indian Economic and Social History Review