Encyclopaedia of Indian Women Through the Ages: Ancient India
Encyclopaedia of Indian Women Through the Ages: Ancient India

Author: Simmi Jain

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9788178351162

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Women have witnessed acute socio-economic problems in male-dominated society in the annals of Indian sub-continent. However, they maintained their identity and consequently emerged as a useful partner in the household affairs. The theme has been comprehensively weaved into for volumes, viz., ancient, medieval and modern India with a thrust on freedom struggle for Swaraj. It has vividly described status of women during the phases of history; her rights and duties, standard of education, lives of Devadasi and widows, female slaves, divorce, remarriage system, the Muslim queens, participatin of wimen in three major movements during Gandihan era, and their sacrifices, status of Dalit women, socio-economic regeneration, nuns in Kerala, women and family welfare, role in labour force and vision of Annie Besant. These Volumes would be useful for social scientists, researchers and students in India and abroad.

Women Through The Ages
Women Through The Ages

Author: Kanta Seema & Sharma Sharma

Publisher:

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9788126125005

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Traditionally, Women In India Are Regarded As Honourable And Dignified Personality. But In Practice, They Are Confined Within Many Socio-Religious Sanctions.The Present Volume Gives A Categorical Account Of The Long March Of Women From Ancient Times To The Present Day. The Vital Information Is Gathered Under Sixteen Chapters, Namely Introduction; The Backdrop; Women In Vedic Age; Tradition Of Hinduism; Other Religious Traditions; Women In Islam; Pre-British Era; Reforms By British; Transition Period; After The Freedom; Economics And Political Conditions; In The Backyard; Indian Patriarchy; Role Of Education; Female Organisations; And Women Today; Etc.A Veritable Mine Of Information, This Multidisciplinary Work Will Prove Useful To Academics, Policy Planners And Women Activists.

Women of India
Women of India

Author: Bharati Ray

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13:

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The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.