In pursuit of playfulness : (Record no. 67394)
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fixed length control field | 02274cam a2200217 i 4500 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9789352904044 (hardback) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9789352904143 (paperback) |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 305.23082 |
Item number | RUB/I |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Ruby Lal |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | In pursuit of playfulness : |
Remainder of title | the girl-child/woman and nineteenth-century India / |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | Delhi |
Name of publisher | Primus books |
Year of publication | 2019 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | xvii, 229 p. |
Other physical details | illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming 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 freedom, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites-forest, school, household and rooftops. The Author Ruby Lal is an acclaimed historian of Mughal India. Her first book Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World won much acclaim, including numerous reviews in major international magazines, such as The New York Review of Books, The Economic and Political Weekly, Revue Historique, and The Times Literary Supplement. The Western edition of her second book, Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl Child and the Art of Playfulness was reviewed extensively in academic journals and magazines with wider intellectual concerns. Her latest work is a creative non-fiction book, Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan (2018). She teaches at Emory University and divides her time between Atlanta and Delhi. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Girls |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Women |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Women |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical Term | Girls in literature |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | BK |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
control field | 20979465 |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
LC control number | 2019328431 |
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 | 05/08/2023 | 1595.00 | 305.23082 RUB/I | 59342 | BK |