Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India ('the Body, Gender and Culture')

Jhala, Angma Dey

Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd（2008/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781851969418
• DDC分類 305.482109540904

基本説明

This book examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence periods, from the 1890s to the end of the twentieth century.

Full Description

Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.

Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890-1947; Chapter 2 Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modern Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States; Chapter 3 A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana; Chapter 4 Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Materrnal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar; Chapter 5 Troubles in Indore, The Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously; Chapter 6 From 'Pardah to Parliament': Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial India; Chapter 7 Epilogue;