Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness (Record no. 37557)
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| fixed length control field | 01470cam a2200181 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781107030244 (hardback) |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 305.235 2 |
| Item number | LAL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Lal, Ruby |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Cambridge, |
| Name of publisher | Cambridge University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 229 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., maps ; |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Women |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Girls |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Domestic relations |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | History- India |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | BK |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Collection code | Home library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Stack | Kannur University Central Library | Stack | 16/01/2016 | 895.00 | 305.235 2 LAL | 37516 | BK |