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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.
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 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 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 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 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:
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 Widows in India by : Bindeshwar Pathak
Download or read book Widows in India written by Bindeshwar Pathak and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heart-wrenching book on widows in contemporary India delves into multiple forms of material and emotional deprivation including a most oppressive kind of renunciation forced on the widows living in Varanasi and Vrindavan. Seeing the things from the suffering women's perspective, it questions the exclusivity of their renunciatory life prescribed by the Hindu Dharmashastras. Among other things, this work argues powerfully that the widows need a measure of social security for their sheer material survival, as they have for long been subjected to humiliation, neglect and blatant exploitation. In spite of modern India's constitutional provisions which grant equal rights to women, a large section of these women continue to suffer due to the heterogeneous and hierarchical nature of our social structure based on most glaring forms of socio-economic inequalities. The plight of widows is very pathetic because of the longstanding hold of orthodoxy, obscurantism and superstitious beliefs. Besides cruel frustrations of widowhood, the widows suffer from severe social, economic and cultural deprivations. Concerned with social and economic conditions of widows and their dependent children, this empathetic study seeks to understand: What are the overwhelming problems of widows? Do the widows think that widowhood has affected their social life in a cruel way? How do the widows cope with the changing times and changing society? Besides providing insight into the socio-psychological aspects of widowhood, this study investigates the people's attitude towards the widows and their own self-image. The book also elucidates and suggests ways and means to be adopted by the state, civil society organizations and the people as a whole in order to change the mindset of the widows and reorient them to take life in their own hands instead of being passive beneficiaries of others' charities.
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.
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.
Book Synopsis Widows of Vidarbha by : Kota Neelima
Download or read book Widows of Vidarbha written by Kota Neelima and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vidarbha—the parched heartland of central India—has become the foremost site of farmer suicides in the country. These suicides are the most striking indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state. But the story of the farmers’ distress does not end with their death—it lives on in the experience of their widows who struggle to survive in the shadows. Widows of Vidarbha tells the story of 16 such widows who have been invisible to the state, the community, and even their families, and talks of their lost dreams, their diminished worldviews, and their helpless surrender to the conveniences of patriarchy. These narratives throw light on the dark and desperate corners of their invisible world, one that reflects the state of farm widows across the country.
Book Synopsis Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères by : Binita Mehta
Download or read book Widows, Pariahs, and Bayadères written by Binita Mehta and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how French dramatists reproduced certain images of India such as the burning widow, the lowly pariah or untouchable, and the exotic 'bayadere' or dancing girl in four plays and one ballet written from the eighteenth century through the twentieth centuries. Addressing questions of Orientalism, the book also argues that it was because the French lost their Indian colonies to the Briish in the eighteenth centuries that India became a part of the French literary imagination.
Book Synopsis Contentious Traditions by : Lata Mani
Download or read book Contentious Traditions written by Lata Mani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contentious Traditions analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow burning in 1829 was heralded as a key step forward for women's emancipation in modern India, Lata Mani argues that the women who were burned were marginal to the debate and that the controversy was over definitions of Hindu tradition, the place of ritual in religious worship, the civilizing missions of colonialism and evangelism, and the proper role of the colonial state. Mani radically revises colonialist as well as nationalist historiography on the social reform of women's status in the colonial period and clarifies the complex and contradictory character of missionary writings on India. The history of widow burning is one of paradox. While the chief players in the debate argued over the religious basis of sati and the fine points of scriptural interpretation, the testimonials of women at the funeral pyres consistently addressed the material hardships and societal expectations attached to widowhood. And although historiography has traditionally emphasized the colonial horror of sati, a fascinated ambivalence toward the practice suffused official discussions. The debate normalized the violence of sati and supported the misconception that it was a voluntary act of wifely devotion. Mani brilliantly illustrates how situated feminism and discourse analysis compel a rewriting of history, thus destabilizing the ways we are accustomed to look at women and men, at "tradition," custom, and modernity.
Book Synopsis Sati - Widow Burning in India by : Sakuntala Narasimhan
Download or read book Sati - Widow Burning in India written by Sakuntala Narasimhan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1992-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sati--the burning of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre--has for centuries been one of the few ways in which women of India could achieve renown, respect, and even deification. This eye-opening work exposes what this still persistent ritual (officially outlawed in 1829) reveals about this society and about the women who choose or are forced to become sati. 8-page insert.
