LEADER 03380nam 22006852 450 001 9910453018703321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23749-1 010 $a1-139-85437-2 010 $a1-139-84614-0 010 $a1-139-84293-5 010 $a1-139-84056-8 010 $a1-139-84529-2 010 $a1-139-34331-9 010 $a1-283-83635-1 010 $a1-139-84174-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708961 035 $a(EBL)1057548 035 $a(OCoLC)818883471 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000759292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451006 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10782282 035 $a(PQKB)11749106 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139343312 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057548 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1057548 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10628036 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL414885 035 $a(OCoLC)818658324 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708961 100 $a20120309d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aComing of age in nineteenth-century India $ethe girl-child and the art of playfulness /$fRuby Lal$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 229 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-52134-3 311 $a1-107-03024-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrelude: opening the door -- 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 -- A retrospect: in pursuit of playfulness. 330 $aIn this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops. 606 $aWomen$zIndia$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 606 $aGirls$zIndia$xSocial life and customs$y19th century 606 $aDomestic relations$zIndia$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aWomen$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aGirls$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aDomestic relations$xHistory 676 $a305.235/2095409034 700 $aLal$b Ruby$01052415 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453018703321 996 $aComing of age in nineteenth-century India$92483681 997 $aUNINA