Format:
Online-Ressource (250 p)
ISBN:
9781107030244
Content:
In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India; Title; Copyright; Contents; Photos; Maps; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration, Translation and Citations; Prelude: Opening the Door; AZRA KIDWAI: THE GUIDING POINT; "SPACES BECOME YOUR UNIVERSE"; "LIVING CREATURES IN MY MIND"; "THE (SHORT-LIVED) PLEASURES OF PAISAR"; AZRA'S INVITATION; 1 Texts, Spaces, Histories; THE WOMAN QUESTION IN THE METROPOLIS AND THE COLONY; THE DEBATE ON THE GIRL-CHILD/WOMAN; THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY; PLAYFULNESS; 2 The Woman of the Forest; A PLAYFUL CONTEXT; FOREST AND OUTSKIRTS; FEMALE FIGURES IN INSHA'S TALE
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THE FUTURE OF INSHA'S TALE3 The Woman of the School; THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGING; SCHOOLGIRL; TEXTBOOK FOR GIRLS; SHIV PRASAD'S KAHANI THETH HINDI MEIN (THE STORY IN PURE HINDI); 4 The Woman of the Household; RESUSCITATION OF RESPECTABILITY; TEXTS OF REVITALIZATION; THE CURRICULUM FOR A GIRL-CHILD'S EDUCATION; MODEL WOMEN; 5 The Woman of the Rooftops; ASHRAF-UN-NISA'S ROOFTOPS; ROKEYA'S LADYLAND; FATIMA'S FORBIDDEN TERRACE; THE EXTENDED WORLD OF THE GIRL-CHILD AND WOMAN; A Retrospect: In Pursuit of Playfulness; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139842938
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107030244
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India : The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness
Language:
English
Keywords:
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