000			01470cam a2200181 a 4500
020			_a9781107030244 (hardback)
082	0	0	_a305.235 2 _bLAL
100	1		_aLal, Ruby
245	1	0	_aComing of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness
260			_aCambridge, _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_axvii, 229 p. : _bill., maps ;
520			_a"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	_aWomen
650		0	_aGirls
650		0	_aDomestic relations
650		7	_aHistory- India
942			_cBK
999			_c37557 _d37557