Women and Labour in Late Colonial India

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India
Author: Samita Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 1999-05-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521453631

Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

Working Lives & Worker Militancy

Working Lives & Worker Militancy
Author: Ravi Ahuja
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: India
ISBN: 9789382381211

Papers presented at the International Workshop on "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia", held at Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen in 2011.

Bonded Histories

Bonded Histories
Author: Gyan Prakash
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2003-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521526586

An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.

Law and the Economy in Colonial India

Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Author: Tirthankar Roy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022638764X

By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."

Women and the Colonial State

Women and the Colonial State
Author: Elsbeth Locher-Scholten
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789053564035

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state relationship by presenting five empirical studies on subjects, in which women figured prominently at the time: Indonesian labour, Indonesian servants in colonial homes, Dutch colonial fashion and food, the feminist struggle for the vote and the intense debate about monogamy of and by women at the end of the 1930s. An introductory essay combines the outcomes of the case studies and relates those to debates about Orientalism, the construction of whiteness, and to questions of modernity and the colonial state formation.

Sex and the Family in Colonial India

Sex and the Family in Colonial India
Author: Durba Ghosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521857048

Study of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.

Women in Modern India

Women in Modern India
Author: Geraldine Forbes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1996-05-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521268127

The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed their lives, enabling them to take part in public life. Through the women's own accounts, the author has compiled an accessible and immediate record of their achievements over the past two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.

Women in Colonial India

Women in Colonial India
Author: Geraldine Hancock Forbes
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2005
Genre: Women
ISBN: 9788180280177

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.

Gender in South Asia

Gender in South Asia
Author: Subhadra Channa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1107043611

The book theorizes gender in terms of models generalizing upon historical sources and lived realities.