Women in modern India
By: Geraldine Forbes
Edition: 1st South Asian ed.
Series: The new Cambridge history of India -- IV, 2; New Cambridge history of India -- IV, 2.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521612401
Subjects: Women; History; Social conditions; Modern period
Notes: Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Reform in the Nineteenth Century: efforts to modernize women's roles; title: Education for women; title: The emergence of women's organizations; title: The movements for women's rights; title: Women in the nationalist movement; title: Women's work in colonial India; title: A time of transition; title: Women in independent India.