Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader

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Introduction TANIKA SARKAR AND SUMIT SARKAR PART A: HISTORICAL RESEARCH 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 Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women's Discourses and Participation in the Debates over Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s PADMA ANAGOL Punjab and the North-West KENNETH JONES Muslim Women and the Control of Property in North India GREGORY C. KOZLOWSKI Prize-Winning Adab: A Study of Five Urdu Books Written in Response to the Allahabad Government Gazette Notification C.M. NAIM Sayyid Mumtaz 'Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam and Women's Journalism in Urdu GAIL MINAULT Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women's Reform, 1857-1900 FAISAL FATEHALI DEVJI Women's Question in the Dravidian Movement c. 1925-1948 S. ANANDHI Multiple Meanings: Changing Conceptions of Matrilineal Kinship in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Malabar G. ARUNIMA Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India VIRGINIUS XAXA The 'Second Women's War' and the Emergence of Democratic Government in Manipur SAROJ N. ARAMBAM PARRATT AND JOHN PARRATT Gender in the Critique of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' MRINALINI SINHA Jawaharlal Nehru and the Hindu Code: A Victory of Symbol over Substance? REBA SOM PART B: CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS Tracts against Sati RAMMOHAN ROY The Woeful Plight of Hindu Women KAILASHBASINI DEVI From Stripurusha Tulana TARABAI SHINDE From Miscellaneous Writings M.G. RANADE The Worship of Women BEGUM ROKEYA SAKHAWAT HOSSAIN

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