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Behind the Veil

Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia

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Editors:
  1. Anindita Ghosh

    1. University of Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Anindita Ghosh
    Pages 1-20

  3. From the Symbolic to the Open: Women’s Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra

    • Padma Anagol
    Pages 21-57

  4. Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell Their Photographs

    • Geraldine Forbes
    Pages 58-82

  5. Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates

    • Tanika Sarkar
    Pages 83-115

  6. Subtle Subversions And Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women’s Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century

    • Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    Pages 116-138

  7. Gender, Subalternity, and Silence: Recovering Convict Women’s Experiences From Histories of Transportation, c. 1780–1857

    • Clare Anderson
    Pages 139-160

  8. The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875–1911

    • Nita Verma Prasad
    Pages 161-190

  9. A World of Their Very Own: Religion, Pain, and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century

    • Anindita Ghosh
    Pages 191-221

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-233
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About this book

This book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.

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'...an important contribution to the study of women in colonial South Asia.' The International Journal of Asian Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Manchester, UK

    Anindita Ghosh

About the editor

PADMA ANAGOL Lecturer in History, Cardiff University, UK CLARE ANDERSON Senior Lecturer, University of Leicester, UK GERALDINE FORBES Distinguised Teaching Professor, State University of New York Oswego, USA ANINDITA GHOSH Lecturer in Modern History, University of Manchester, UK SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Nottingham Trent University, UK NITA VARMA PRASAD Assistant Professor of History, East Stroudsburg University, USA TANIKA SARKAR Professor of Modern History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Behind the Veil

  • Book Subtitle: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia

  • Editors: Anindita Ghosh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583672

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-55344-6Published: 02 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36317-9Published: 01 January 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58367-2Published: 02 September 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 233

  • Topics: Asian History, Clinical Psychology, Social History, Cultural History, Gender Studies, Modern History

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