Women in colonial India : essays on survival, work and the state

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J. Krishnamurty : Introduction Lucy Carroll: Law, custom and statutory social reform: the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856 Alice Clark: Limitations on female life chances in rural central Gujarat Kamal Ganesh: Jajmani relations in Tirunelveli district: A case study of the Kottai Pillaimar, 1839-1979 Madhu Kishwar: The daughters of Aryavarta Gregory C. Kozlowski: Muslim women and the control of property in North India Radha Kumar: Family and factory: Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 1919-1939 Brij V. Lal: Kunti's cry: Indentured women on Fiji plantations Mukul Mukherjee: Impact of modernisation on women's occupations: A case study of the rice-husking industry of Bengal Gail Pearson: Reserved seats - women and the vote in Bombay M. Atchi Reddy: Female agricultural labourers of Nellore, 1881-1981 Tanika Sarkar: Politics and women in Bengal - the conditions and meaning of participation.

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