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Book Synopsis Problems of Widows in India by : P. Adinarayana Reddy
Download or read book Problems of Widows in India written by P. Adinarayana Reddy and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented earlier at a seminar held at Tirupati, India.
Download or read book Living Death written by V. Mohini Giri and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has deep bearing on the socio-economic condition of widows in Indian sub-continent where the discrimination against them is still rife. This marginalisation cuts across religion, caste and class barriers to make it an India, though the dimension and the degree may vary in rigidity. The book while giving an overview of the status of widows, focusses on the marginalisation peculiar to individual regions and specific kind of widows. It is indeed a rich and comprehensive compilation of contributions by eminent social scientist who have made even an academic assessment of impact of recent armed conflict in Jammu and Kashmir and Kargil on those who bore the brunt of endless mental and physical agony. Undoubtedly the assessment of each author is unique and Scholarly. The whole book would be very useful for teachers, scholars, students and social activists, intellectuals and socials scientists both in India and abroad.
Book Synopsis Perpetual Mourning by : Martha Alter Chen
Download or read book Perpetual Mourning written by Martha Alter Chen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing Her Book On Rich Empirical Date And In-Depth Interviews With More Than 550 Widows From 14 Villages In Seven States, The Author Analyses The Social And Economic Challenges Widows Pose To The Social Order.
Download or read book Widows in India written by T. N. Kitchlu and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socioeconomic conditions of widows in India.
Book Synopsis The Indian Widow: From Victim To Victor by : Jeanette Pinto
Download or read book The Indian Widow: From Victim To Victor written by Jeanette Pinto and published by St Pauls BYB. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India by : Behramji Merwanji Malabari
Download or read book Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India written by Behramji Merwanji Malabari and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shadow Lives written by Uma Chakravarti and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Volume Documents The Focus On The Widow, Regarded As The Dark Half Of Womankind In Tradition, The Structural Counterpart Of The Sumangali Or The Auspicious Married Woman, And To Provide An Archive On Widowhood. The Archive Comprises Prescriptions, Injunctions, Laws And Other Accounts Dating Back To The 5Th Century Bc From Sanskrit Texts As Well As Extracts From Official Documents, Pamphlets And Essays In Many Languages, Published In The 19Th And 20Th Centuries. The Material Is Arranged In Three Parts: Documents, Personal Narratives And Creative Writing In An Attempt To Capture The Complexities Of The Experience Of Widowhood, Its Diversity And Range Across India. With The Emergence Of The Women S Movement In The Last Quarter Of The 20Th Century, The Terms Of Analysis Have Changed And Feminist Inspired Scholarship Has Raised New Questions. In The Anthology The Widow Comes Across Not Just As A Passive Pitiable Object, Oppressed, Victimised And Patronised But As An Active Resisting Survivor It Is This Last Image That Stays With The Reader.
Download or read book Widows in India written by L. Thara Bhai and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the social and economic conditions of widows of Tamil Nadu, India; a study.
Book Synopsis Real and Imagined Widows by : Jyoti Atwal
Download or read book Real and Imagined Widows written by Jyoti Atwal and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India explores the politico-cultural imagination that formed the subtext of the reformist, nationalist and women's discourses on widowhood from the colonial period to the 1950s. The reformist voice and action on widowhood remained loosely defined so that the 1933 Bill in favour of giving property 'rights' to widows continued to be rejected by conservative Hindus in the United Provinces until 1937, when the debate led by Harbilas Sharda acquired a national status. This book examines the legislative debates on the relationship between sexuality, morality, property rights and widowhood. The volume also explores the world of literate widows of the early twentieth century many of whom were also writers. Some of them were conscious of the lacunae in the reformist agenda and developed a unique critique of their own regarding the economic, social and sexual oppression of Hindu widows. Helped by the emergence of a very active Hindi public sphere in the early twentieth century, they could cultivate a literary language of social protest through their autobiographies, poetry, short stories and novels. The complex connection between the nineteenth-century idea of widowhood and the concept of the anti-colonial Mother India of the 1920s transformed the notion of the ideal Hindu widow into a metaphor for a struggling/recovering nation in post-colonial India. In independent India, Nehruvian socialism uniquely combined with Gandhian moral reformism which continued to produce renewed and reformed cultural codes for widows in particular and for Indian women in general.
Book Synopsis Widows in India by : Martha Alter Chen
Download or read book Widows in India written by Martha Alter Chen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood by : Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller
Download or read book The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood written by Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Widowhood in Modern India by : P. K. B. Nayar
Download or read book Widowhood in Modern India written by P. K. B. Nayar and published by Women's Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On widows in India presented at the first national seminar of Centre for Gerontological Studies, Trivandrum.
Book Synopsis Papers Relating to Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India by : India. Home Department
Download or read book Papers Relating to Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India written by India. Home Department and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Lecturer in Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Martha Alter Chen Publisher : ISBN 13 :9780812236217 Total Pages :456 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (362 download)
Book Synopsis Perpetual Mourning by : Lecturer in Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Martha Alter Chen
Download or read book Perpetual Mourning written by Lecturer in Public Policy Kennedy School of Government Martha Alter Chen and published by . This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Perpetual Mourning, Martha Alter Chen examines both the ideals and the reality of widowhood in rural India, particularly in Hindu communities. She argues that the ideology of widowhood in India is part of a larger ideology of gender that is designed to control women through the institutions of marriage, kinship, and caste in such a way that they uphold, rather than threaten, the social order. Without the restraining influence of a husband, widows represent the greatest threat to the social order, and therefore need to be controlled most rigidly.Chen first describes how widowhood is constructed, idealized, and represented in orthodox Hindu tradition, devoting individual chapters to the three classic options for Hindu widows -- suttee, or ritual immolation; chaste, ascetic life alone; and remarriage. The author focuses on the ideology underlying these three options as well as the actual practice during several broad historical eras, including the classical age of Hindu texts, the British colonial period, and India immediately following independence. An in-depth exploration of the lives of widows in contemporary rural India follows, informed by personal interviews.Drawing from theory and methodology of anthropology, economics, and sociology, Perpetual Mourning offers new insights into the ways kinship, marriage, and caste interact to structure the lives of widows, and in the process, illuminates our understanding of the construction of gender in India.
Book Synopsis Marriage of Hindu Widows by : Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara
Download or read book Marriage of Hindu Widows written by Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Catherine Weinberger-Thomas Publisher :University of Chicago Press ISBN 13 :9780226885681 Total Pages :344 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (856 download)
Book Synopsis Ashes of Immortality by : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Download or read book Ashes of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.
Book Synopsis The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature by : Rajul Sogani
Download or read book The Hindu Widow in Indian Literature written by Rajul Sogani and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depiction of widow in the novels in various Indian languages.
