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| Author | : V. Janapathy |
| Publisher | : Gyan Books |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Marriage |
| ISBN | : |
Over the eras , women in india have victims of all sorts of exploition and tortures.There plight has been well known , but no serious work has done on them for years,till awakening came and some scholars initiated to write on this weaker section of the society. Since Independence, much has been done for bettering the lot of the fair sex and a lot has been written on the subject. This study covers women^s state and their status over the ages, which makes it a fundamental study in the discipline .It^s a comprehensive and exhau stive book on Indian Women.
| Author | : Swami Madhavananda |
| Publisher | : Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math) |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
The pages of Indian history are illumined by the lives of saintly men and women radiating their brilliance from different spheres of action. And these pages cover millennia. The present book is an abridgment of the title 'Great Women of India' and provides in a brief compass an account of the exemplary women of character, piety and renunciation who have ennobled the sacred land 'Bharat'. Short notes are presented on the lives of extraordinary women in Vedic times, in Ramayana and Mahabharata, in Buddhism and Jainism, in Middles Ages all across India, and to the present age culminating in a brief life sketch of Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, the divine consort of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math
| Author | : Ashwini Tambe |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2019-10-16 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0252051580 |
At what age do girls gain the maturity to make sexual choices? This question provokes especially vexed debates in India, where early marriage is a widespread practice. India has served as a focal problem site in NGO campaigns and intergovernmental conferences setting age standards for sexual maturity. Over the last century, the country shifted the legal age of marriage from twelve, among the lowest in the world, to eighteen, at the high end of the global spectrum. Ashwini Tambe illuminates the ideas that shaped such shifts: how the concept of adolescence as a sheltered phase led to delaying both marriage and legal adulthood; how the imperative of population control influenced laws on marriage age; and how imperial moral hierarchies between nations provoked defensive postures within India. Tambe takes a transnational feminist approach to legal history, showing how intergovernmental debates influenced Indian laws and how expert discourses in India changed UN terminology about girls. Ultimately, Tambe argues, the well-meaning focus on child marriage has been tethered less to the interests of girls themselves and more to parents’ interests, achieving population control targets, and preserving national reputation.
| Author | : Simmi Jain |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : 9788178351162 |
| Author | : S. K. Ghosh |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : Women |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sita Anantha Raman |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2009-06-08 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 031301440X |
Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these colorful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-Western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these coloful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Individual chapters highlight the enduring legacies of many important male and female figures, illustrating how each played a key role in modifying the substance of women's lives. Political movements are examined as well, such as the nationalist reform movement of 1947 in which the ideal of Indian womanhood became central to the nation and the push for independence. Also included is a survey of women in contemporary India and the role they played in the resurgence of militant Hindu nationalism. Aside from being an engaging and readable narrative of Indian history, this set integrates women's issues, roles, and achievements into the general study of the times, providing a clear presentation of the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic realities that have helped shape the identity of Indian women.
| Author | : Ramachandra Guha |
| Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 871 |
| Release | : 2017-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1509883282 |
Ramachandra Guha’s India after Gandhi is a magisterial account of the pains, struggles, humiliations and glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy. A riveting chronicle of the often brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation, and of the extraordinary individuals and institutions who held it together, it established itself as a classic when it was first published in 2007. In the last decade, India has witnessed, among other things, two general elections; the fall of the Congress and the rise of Narendra Modi; a major anti-corruption movement; more violence against women, Dalits, and religious minorities; a wave of prosperity for some but the persistence of poverty for others; comparative peace in Nagaland but greater discontent in Kashmir than ever before. This tenth anniversary edition, updated and expanded, brings the narrative up to the present. Published to coincide with seventy years of the country’s independence, this definitive history of modern India is the work of one of the world’s finest scholars at the height of his powers.
| Author | : Chris Bobel |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 1041 |
| Release | : 2020-07-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9811506140 |
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
| Author | : Paul Thomas |
| Publisher | : Bombay ; New York : Asia Publishing House |
| Total Pages | : 410 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : Families |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Durba Mitra |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2020-01-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0691196346 |
"During the colonial period, Indian intellectuals--philologists, lawyers, scientists and literary figures--all sought to hold a mirror to their country. Whether they wrote novels, polemics, or scientific treatises, all sought a better understanding of society in general and their society in particular. Curiously, female sexuality and sexual behavior play an outside role in their writing. The figure of the prostitute is ubiquitous in everything from medical texts and treatises on racial evolution to anti-Muslim polemic and studies of ancient India. In this book, Durba Mitra argues that between the 1840s and the 1940s, the new science of sexuality became foundational to the scientific study of Indian social progress. The colonial state and an emerging set of Bengali male intellectuals extended the regulation of sexuality to far-reaching projects that sought to define what society should look like and how modern citizens should behave. An exploration of this history of social scientific thought offers new perspectives to understand the power of paternalistic and deeply violent claims about sexual norms in the postcolonial world today. These histories reveal the enduring authority of scientific claims to a tradition that equates social good with the control of women's free will and desire. Thus, they managed to dramatically reorganize their society around upper-caste Hindu ideals of strict monogamy"--
