Read more
Informationen zum Autor Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The “Manly Englishman” and the “Effeminate Bengali” in the Late Nineteenth Century and the editor of Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text. Klappentext A historical analysis of a book-inspired controversy that in its dimensions rivalled Hernnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve" and Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and brought forth a new political collectivity in India's women. Zusammenfassung Tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. This title provides graphic details of a variety of social ills in India! especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgements xi Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration xv Introduction: The Anatomy of an Event 1 1. A Transitional Moment: The Dynamics of an Interwar Imperial Social Formation 23 2. Unpredictable Outcome: The Trajectory of a Transatlantic Intervention 66 3. Ironic Reversal: The Rhetoric of “Facts” in the Controversy over Mother India 109 4. Refashioning Mother India: The Sarda Act and Women’s Collective Agency 152 5. Ambiguous Aftermath: Political Consolidation on the Eve of the Second World War 197 Epilogue: History, Memory, Event 248 Notes 255 Bibliography 336 Index 361
