Angma Dey Jhala

Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9781851969418
• ISBN-10: 1851969411
• Artikelnr.: 43750305

Autorenporträt

Angma Dey Jhala

Inhaltsangabe

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;