ISBN:
0742529363
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0742529371
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9780742577350
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9780742529373
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 235 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Domesticity in Colonial India : What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice
DDC:
305.420954
Keywords:
Hindu women Conduct of life 18th century
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Hindu women Social conditions 18th century
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Hindu women - India - Conduct of life - 18th century
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India Colonial influence 18th century
;
India Social life and customs 18th century
Abstract:
Domesticity in Colonial India offers a trenchant analysis of the impact of imperialism on the personal, familial, and daily structures of colonized people's lives. Exploring the 'intimacies of empire,' Judith E. Walsh traces changing Indian gender relations and the social reconstructions of the late nineteenth century. For urban middle-class Indians of this time, the Hindu woman and her domestic world were at the center of a debate over colonial modernity and indigenous home and family life. The practices of family, home, and daily life that resulted would define the Hindu woman of the twentie
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation and Transliteration; Introduction; 1: Global Domesticity; 2: Domesticity in Colonial Calcutta; 3: Rewriting Patriarchy: The Companionate Marriage; 4: Will the Educated Woman Still Cook and Scour Plates?; 5: What's Love Got to Do with It?; 6: The Well-Ordered Home; 7: What Women Learned: Rewriting Patriarchy, Writing the Nation and the Self; Epilogue; Appendix A: Conversations with the Wife [Strīr sahit kathopakathan]
Description / Table of Contents:
Appendix B: A Husband's Advice to His Wife [Strīr prati svāmīr upadeś]Appendix C: The Laksmī of the Home [Grha laksmī]; Appendix D: The Duties of Women [Ramanīr kartavya]; Appendix E: Woman 's Dharma [Nārī dharma]; Supporting Translations: A Note on Bengali Domestic Manuals and Their Authors; Brief Glossary; References; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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