Real and imagined widows :gender relations in colonial North India (Record no. 60546)

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ISBN 9789384082987
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Classification number 306.8830954
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Personal name Jyoti Atwal
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Title Real and imagined widows :gender relations in colonial North India
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Place of publication Delhi
Name of publisher Primus
Year of publication 2016
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Number of Pages x, 282p.
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Summary, etc Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India explores the politico-cultural imagination that formed the subtext of the reformist, nationalist and women's discourses on widowhood from the colonial period to the 1950s. The reformist voice and action on widowhood remained loosely defined so that the 1933 Bill in favour of giving property 'rights' to widows continued to be rejected by conservative Hindus in the United Provinces until 1937, when the debate led by Harbilas Sharda acquired a national status. This book examines the legislative debates on the relationship between sexuality, morality, property rights and widowhood.<br/><br/>The volume also explores the world of literate widows of the early twentieth century many of whom were also writers. Some of them were conscious of the lacunae in the reformist agenda and developed a unique critique of their own regarding the economic, social and sexual oppression of Hindu widows. Helped by the emergence of a very active Hindi public sphere in the early twentieth century, they could cultivate a literary language of social protest through their autobiographies, poetry, short stories and novels. The complex connection between the nineteenth-century idea of widowhood and the concept of the anti-colonial Mother India of the 1920s transformed the notion of the ideal Hindu widow into a metaphor for a struggling/recovering nation in post-colonial India. In independent India, Nehruvian socialism uniquely combined with Gandhian moral reformism which continued to produce renewed and reformed cultural codes for widows in particular and for Indian women in general.
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Topical Term Widowhood
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Topical Term Widows--Legal status, laws, etc
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Topical Term Hindu women--Social conditions
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Kannur University Central Library Stack 12/01/2021 1495.00 306.8830954 JYO/R 51933 BK

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