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Women in India
  • Language: en

Women in India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

Looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Integrates women's issues, roles, and achievements into the general study of the times, providing a clear presentation of the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic realities that have helped shape the identity of Indian women. With a focus on gender and female sexuality in terms of representations in male texts of the premodern era; their later use by men and women for contemporary social and political purposes; women's narratives in their social contexts; and the issues of female agency and objectification, addresses women's subordinate nature in India, but also their active resistance, avenues for self-expression, negotiations with patriarchy, and support of oppressive traditions.

Women in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 518

Women in India

Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these colorful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-Western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Are Indian women powerful...

Women in India [2 Volumes]
  • Language: en

Women in India [2 Volumes]

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-06-08
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  • Publisher: Praeger

Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these colorful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-Western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Are Indian women powerful...

Women¿s Rights and Law Codes in Early India 600 Bce- 570 Ace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Women¿s Rights and Law Codes in Early India 600 Bce- 570 Ace

This book looks at the first eight Sanskrit law codes written in India, between 600 BCE-570 ACE. It focuses on the legal, religious and ethical customs which were codified in this period and their impact on the social and political life of women. The volume analyzes texts such as the major Dharma Sūtras, the Arthaśāstra, the Manu Smŗiti, and the Yāĵňyavalkya Smŗiti, and Nāradā Smŗiti, amongst others. It looks at how discourses on justice, conduct, virtues and duties were used to systematize patriarchy and the varna system in South Asia. This volume studies the laws and customs on marriage, patrimony, and property, and it highlights the anxieties around female chastity and varna li...

A. Madhaviah
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

A. Madhaviah

The Novel Presented In The Work Has Strong Autobiographical Elements - Vividly Describes The Quaint And Terrible Vice Of Gender Injustice In Which Both Tamil Brahmin Men And Women Of The Time Were Caught. 2 Parts - Part I Biography - Part Ii Novella - Note On Transliteration - Epilogue - Songs From Podhu Dharma Sadgeeta Manjeri. Of Interest To General Readers - Students Of Literature - Literature In Translation And Social History.

Women’s Rights and Law Codes in Early India, 600 BCE–570 ACE
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 247

Women’s Rights and Law Codes in Early India, 600 BCE–570 ACE

This book looks at the first eight Sanskrit law codes written in India, between 600 BCE and 570 ACE. It focuses on the legal, religious and ethical customs which were codified in this period and their impact on the social and political life of women. The volume analyzes texts such as the Dharma Sūtras, the Arthaśāstra, the Manu Smŗiti, the Yājňyavalkya Smŗiti, and Nārada Smŗiti, amongst others. It studies discourses on justice, conduct, virtues and duties, and how early laws were used to systematize patriarchy and the varna caste system in South Asia. It examines how patrimonial laws and male property rights highlighted social anxieties about female chastity and varna lineage, which...

Raja Raja Chola
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Raja Raja Chola

Tarul Mozhi Varman was the younger son of the king of Thanjavur. Quiet, firm and dependable he won the heart of every person he met. However, it was his hot-headed brother who was heir to the throne. But no one could stand in the way of what destiny had in store for the young prince. By the strangest twists of fate, Arul ascended the throne as Raja Raja Chola and proved to be one of the greatest rulers in the history of medieval India. During his 30-year-reign the Chola empire not only became a formidable maritime power but was also a hub of art and architecture.

Wives, Widows, and Concubines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Wives, Widows, and Concubines

Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India

Adult and Social Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 327

Adult and Social Education

These days various trends are in vogue in the field of education and on the books on education. But the most neglected field is of adult education and social education. As India possesses the largest number of illiterate adult persons in the world the relevance of adult education is self understood. The field of social education is also neglected and the general public is still unaware of the problems hovering over society and the modern days' paradoxes. As the globalization and industrialisation has set in the great social upheaval is in the offing. We are witnessing the technological revolution, information and communication revolution, the revolution in the market and at the home. This book tries to do justice with the problems in the field of adult education and social education. It is a small but compact book which covers many aspects of adult education and social education. It is hoped that this book will be liked by educators, education administrators, and the researchers in the field of education.

Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 426

Charisma and Commitment in South Asian History

This collection includes an appreciation of Wolpert s life and writings, and three of his previously unpublished essays. In addition it considers such subjects as premodern cities in South Asia, the Bene Israel in the Konkan, propaganda and the Raj in World War II, and linguistic nationalism and regional identity in Orissa.