Women And Labour In Late Colonial India
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| 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.
| Author | : Prasannan Parthasarathi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2001-04-19 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521570428 |
According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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."
| Author | : Tirthankar Roy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 1999-11-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780521650120 |
The majority of workers in South Asia are employed in industries that rely on manual labour and craft skills. Some of these industries have existed for centuries and survived great changes in consumption and technology over the last 150 years. In earlier studies, historians of the region focused on mechanized rather than craft industries, arguing that traditional manufacturing was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that modern industry is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy s book contests these notions, demonstrating that while traditional industry did evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these transformations had a positive rather than destructive effect on manufacturing generally. In fact, the book suggests, the major industries in post-independence India were shaped by such transformations. Tirthankar Roy s book offers new and penetrating insights into India s economic and social history.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
