Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India - The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness

In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ruby Lal, Ruby (Emory University Lal, Lal Ruby
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781107521346
• ISBN: 978-1-107-52134-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, History, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Age groups: children, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY / Asia / South / General