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Informationen zum Autor Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. She has written extensively on women and gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial and colonial world. In addition to numerous academic articles and political commentaries, she is the author of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005). She is currently finalizing a historical biography of the Mughal Empress Nur Jahan (forthcoming). Klappentext In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity. Zusammenfassung In this eloquent history! Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women. While in the north Indian patriarchal environment! women's lives were dominated by domestic duties! Lal reveals that women in the early nineteenth century experienced greater freedoms! playfulness and creativity than their counterparts in the more restricted colonial world at the end of the century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Texts, spaces, histories; 2. The woman of the forest; 3. The woman of the school; 4. The woman of the household; 5. The woman of the rooftops.
