03726nam 22009495 450 991096427550332120240312114940.09786612198274978128219827212821982709780230583672023058367910.1057/9780230583672(CKB)1000000000767310(EBL)455278(OCoLC)432712999(SSID)ssj0001657108(PQKBManifestationID)16438596(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001657108(PQKBWorkID)14988780(PQKB)10635514(SSID)ssj0000110080(PQKBManifestationID)12033653(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000110080(PQKBWorkID)10060334(PQKB)11337284(DE-He213)978-0-230-58367-2(MiAaPQ)EBC455278(Perlego)3499393(EXLCZ)99100000000076731020151123d2008 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBehind the Veil Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia /by Anindita Ghosh1st ed. 2008.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2008.1 online resource (243 p.)Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007.9781349363179 1349363170 9780230553446 0230553443 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra; 3 Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell their Photographs; 4 Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth-century Public Sphere Debates; 5 Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century; 6 Gender, Subalternity, and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-18577 The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-19118 A World of their Very Own: Religion, Pain, and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century; IndexThis book re-examines 'everyday resistance', gender and power through the lens of women's experiences in colonial South Asia. Moving away from educated and outstanding figures and drawing on a range of unconventional sources, it unearths a narrative of deep and enduring resistance offered by less extraordinary women in their daily lives.AsiaHistoryClinical psychologySocial historyCivilizationHistorySexHistory, ModernAsian HistoryClinical PsychologySocial HistoryCultural HistoryGender StudiesModern HistoryAsiaHistory.Clinical psychology.Social history.CivilizationHistory.Sex.History, Modern.Asian History.Clinical Psychology.Social History.Cultural History.Gender Studies.Modern History.305.48/8914Ghosh Anindita1967-1333757MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964275503321Behind the Veil4330834UNINA