Title: Women and social reform in modern India : a reader /
Authors: Sarkar, Sumit, 1939-; Sarkar, Tanika, 1949-
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2008
Subjects: Women India Social conditions; Women India Social conditions; Social problems India; Social problems India; Social change India; Social change India
Abstract: Contributed articles on social reforms and status of women in 19th and 20th century India.
Contents: Whose sati? Widow burning in early-nineteenth-century India / Anand A. Yang -- Production of an official discourse on sati in early-nineteenth-century Bengal / Lata Mani -- Education for women / Geraldine Forbes -- Law, custom and statutory social reform : the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 / Lucy Carroll -- Caste, widow-remarriage, and the reform of popular culture in colonial Bengal / Sekhar Bandyopadhyay -- Vidyasagar and Brahmanical society / Sumit Sarkar -- Customs in a peasant economy : women in colonial Haryana / Prem Chowdhry -- Silencing heresy / Gauri Viswanathan -- The daughters of Aryavarta / Madhu Kishwar -- Viresalingam and the ideology of social change in Andhra / John and Karen Leonard -- Conjugality and Hindu nationalism : resisting colonial reason and the death of a child-wife / Tanika Sarkar --^