Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A ReaderSumit Sarkar, Tanika Sarkar Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child marriage, as well as those governing marriage and property within different religious communities, continued to exert profound influence on Indian society and politics throughout the 20th century. In this collection, eminent historians Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar bring together some of the most important scholarly articles and primary source documents from the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
Contents
Whose Sati? Widow Burning in EarlyNineteenthCentury India | 15 |
Production of an Official Discourse on Sati in EarlyNineteenth | 38 |
Education for Women | 58 |
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