TY  - BOOK
AU  - Subrata  Bagchi,Ed
TI  - Beyond the private world : Indian women in the public sphere
SN  - 9789384082024
U1  - 200.820954 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Primus books
KW  - Women
KW  - Women and religion
KW  - Women in development
N1  - Contributed articles
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Beyond the Private World explores the status of Indian women, through the ages, in the framework of the private-public dichotomy, as reflected in their lives. Keeping in mind the Habermasian concept of ‘public sphere’ as a reference point, yet mindful of the incongruity between the Eurocentric ideas and the Indian reality this collection of essays appraises the position of Indian women in the pre-modern period with reference to tradition. It also provides glimpses of the various social movements and struggles to overcome patriarchy as well as the nationalist/democratic movements in colonial and post-colonial India that filtered into the ‘private sphere’ and transformed it

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