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Author: Durba Ghosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-11-02
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780521857048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of conjugal relationships between Indian women and British men in colonial India.
Author: Durba Ghosh
Publisher:
Published: 2008-02-02
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780521898799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early years of the British Empire, cohabitation between Indian women and British men was commonplace and to some degree tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a challenge to the existing historiography, anxieties about social status, appropriate sexuality, and the question of who could be counted as 'British' or 'Indian' were constant concerns of the colonial government even at this time. By following the stories of a number of mixed-race families, at all levels of the social scale, from high-ranking officials and noblewomen to rank-and-file soldiers and camp followers, and also the activities of indigenous female concubines, mistresses and wives, the author offers a fascinating account of how gender, class and race affected the cultural, social and even political mores of the period. The book makes an original and signal contribution to scholarship on colonialism, gender and sexuality.
Author: Durba Mitra
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0691196346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"During the colonial period, Indian intellectuals--philologists, lawyers, scientists and literary figures--all sought to hold a mirror to their country. Whether they wrote novels, polemics, or scientific treatises, all sought a better understanding of society in general and their society in particular. Curiously, female sexuality and sexual behavior play an outside role in their writing. The figure of the prostitute is ubiquitous in everything from medical texts and treatises on racial evolution to anti-Muslim polemic and studies of ancient India. In this book, Durba Mitra argues that between the 1840s and the 1940s, the new science of sexuality became foundational to the scientific study of Indian social progress. The colonial state and an emerging set of Bengali male intellectuals extended the regulation of sexuality to far-reaching projects that sought to define what society should look like and how modern citizens should behave. An exploration of this history of social scientific thought offers new perspectives to understand the power of paternalistic and deeply violent claims about sexual norms in the postcolonial world today. These histories reveal the enduring authority of scientific claims to a tradition that equates social good with the control of women's free will and desire. Thus, they managed to dramatically reorganize their society around upper-caste Hindu ideals of strict monogamy"--
Author: Caroline Osella
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1843313995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Men and Masculinities in South India' aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination.
Author: Diane P. Mines
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010-07-16
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 0253013577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow updated: An “eminently readable, highly engaging” anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University). For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth culture. Clear and engaging writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
Author: Sirpa Tenhunen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2012-12-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 085728827X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“An Introduction to Changing India” provides a comprehensive view of the rapid changes occurring in India, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, economics and technology, population, environmental issues and gender. Having carried out anthropological research on kinship, gender issues, politics, class and caste, population issues and the appropriation of information technology in India since the 1990s, the authors draw from their own fieldwork and extensive reading of research reports in order to provide a comprehensive picture of Indian life.
Author: Shinjini Das
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-14
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108420621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterrelated histories of colonial medicine, market and family reveal how Western homeopathy was translated and made vernacular in colonial India.
Author: Roopa Srinivasan
Publisher: Foundation Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9788175963306
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book commemorates 150 years of railways in India. Introduced under colonial rule in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railways soon embraced the length and breadth of India bringing with it rapid political, economic, ecological and cultural changes. The articles in this book explore the impact of this technological phenomenon from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. From early railway thinking in renaissance Bengal, to railway policing in Uttar Pradesh and issues of management to railway themes in literature, the writers in this volume reveal the world of the railways in all its exciting facets. The photo essay invokes the nostalgic world of steam with a series of evocative images. In the twenty-first century, the ever expanding horizon of the railways continues to draw in people and goods in the third largest railway network in the world.
Author: Jessica Hinchy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110849255X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Author: Durba Ghosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-07-20
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107186668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDurba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India.
