Politics of the possible
Subtitle: essays on gender, history, narrative, colonial English
By: Kumkum Sangari.
Publisher: Tulika
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [410]-489) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  1 Politics of the possible: or the perils of reclassification 1; title: 2 Of ladies, gentlemen, and the "short-cut": or choosing; title: unfreedom 29; title: 3 "Not knowing, but only guessing": a modernist; title: resolution 56; title: 4 Figures for the 'unconscious': the pressures on; title: description 74; title: 5 Relating histories 96; title: A dialectic of reform and preservation: Sanskrit; title: and Hindu women 98; title: Literature, female literacy, colonial English:; title: an interface 124; title: The gender of ignorance and altruism:; title: English women and empire 163; title: 6 Women against women 184; title: Mirroring trajectories: the fortunes of English,; title: the logics of class 188; title: Diverse faiths, shared customs, composite beliefs 231; title: The prism of caste: Chhabili Bhatiyari 247; title: 7 The 'amenities of domestic life' 279; title: 'On our work there is no blessing': questions; title: on labour 282; title: The servitude of love and the science of denial 305; title: The promise and retreat of conjugality:; title: widows and prostitutes 350; title: 8 Consent, agency, and rhetorics of incitement 364; title: In indirect ways 366; title: Boons, entitlements, obligations:; title: Kaikeyi and Manthara 384; title: Under institutional sanction: the discourse; title: of violence 397.