ISBN:
9781851969418
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (255 p)
Series Statement:
""The Body, Gender and Culture
Parallel Title:
Print version Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
DDC:
305.48962109540904
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890-1947; 2. Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modem Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States; 3. A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana; 4. Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Maternal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar; 5. Troubles in Indore, the Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously
Description / Table of Contents:
6. From 'Pardah to Parliament': Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial IndiaEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
