Sexuality, Obscenity, And Community
Subtitle: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 31, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780312295851
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Asia - India; Sexuality & Gender Studies; Women's Studies - History; History-Asia - India; Religion-Sexuality & Gender Studies; Sex; Social Science / Women's Studies; Asia - India & South Asia; Women's Studies - General; History; India; Social life and customs; Women; Women and religion
First sentence: This book brings together two distinct issues, namely the reconstruction of patriarchy in north India during the later colonial period, and the emergence of aggressive forms of Hindu organisation and ideology over the same period.