Women And The Post Colonial Indian State
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Women And The Post Colonial Indian State
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Author : Nilendra Bardiar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-04-20
Women And The Post Colonial Indian State written by Nilendra Bardiar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-20 with History categories.
The object of this book is to look into some aspects of law making, policy formulations, and implementation of the constitutional and legal provisions etc. by the post-colonial state in India vis-a-vis gender justice and women "empowerment" and will try to examine the State's perspective on gender relations.This will lead to theorizing the nature and character of the Post-colonial State from a gender perspective. The book will also go into the participation of women in the movement for their rights and the role of women socio-political organizations in the process. While the primary concern of the book will be the post-colonial period, yet, to put the things in the right perspective and to bring the context, it may be necessary to dwell briefly upon the pre-1947 period also (especially the period of 1920 onwards) to understand the working of the post-colonial state in the aftermath of Independence. During the colonial period, the construction of woman as an individual and as a social-familial being in the Gandhian discourse and Nehruvian vision's divergence from it in the post-colonial period were too important to be left out of the scope of this book.
The Scandal Of The State
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Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2003-04-09
The Scandal Of The State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-09 with Social Science categories.
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the “enlightened,” postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself. The Scandal of the State develops through a series of compelling case studies, each of which centers around an incident exposing the contradictory position of the Indian state vis-à-vis its female citizens and, ultimately, the inadequacy of its commitment to women’s rights. Sunder Rajan focuses on the custody battle over a Muslim child bride, the compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women in state institutional care, female infanticide in Tamilnadu, prostitution as labor rather than crime, and the surrender of the female outlaw Phoolan Devi. She also looks at the ways the Uniform Civil Code presented many women with a stark choice between allegiance to their religion and community or the secular assertion of individual rights. Rich with theoretical acumen and activist passion, The Scandal of the State is a powerful critique of the mutual dependence of women and the state on one another in the specific context of a postcolonial modernity.
Women Of India
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Author : Bharati Ray
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2005-10-04
Women Of India written by Bharati Ray and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-04 with History categories.
The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.
En Gendering India
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Author : Sangeeta Ray
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2000-06-20
En Gendering India written by Sangeeta Ray and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-20 with Social Science categories.
En-Gendering India offers an innovative interpretation of the role that gender played in defining the Indian state during both the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing on both British and Indian literary texts—primarily novels—produced between 1857 and 1947, Sangeeta Ray examines representations of "native" Indian women and shows how these representations were deployed to advance notions of Indian self-rule as well as to defend British imperialism. Through her readings of works by writers including Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Harriet Martineau, Flora Annie Steel, Anita Desai, and Bapsi Sidhaa, Ray demonstrates that Indian women were presented as upper class and Hindu, an idealization that paradoxically served the needs of both colonial and nationalist discourses. The Indian nation’s goal of self-rule was expected to enable women’s full participation in private and public life. On the other hand, British colonial officials rendered themselves the protectors of passive Indian women against their “savage” male countrymen. Ray shows how the native woman thus became a symbol for both an incipient Indian nation and a fading British Empire. In addition, she reveals how the figure of the upper-class Hindu woman created divisions with the nationalist movement itself by underscoring caste, communal, and religious differences within the newly emerging state. As such, Ray’s study has important implications for discussions about nationalism, particularly those that address the concepts of identity and nationalism. Building on recent scholarship in feminism and postcolonial studies, En-Gendering India will be of interest to scholars in those fields as well as to specialists in nationalism and nation-building and in Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature and culture.
Women And The Post Colonial Indian State
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Author : Nilendra Bardiar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Women And The Post Colonial Indian State written by Nilendra Bardiar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Marriage law categories.
The Scandal Of The State
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Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Release Date : 2003-04-09
The Scandal Of The State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and has been published by Duke University Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-09 with Social Science categories.
The Scandal of the State is a revealing study of the relationship between the postcolonial, democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Well-known for her work combining feminist theory and postcolonial studies, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan shows how the state is central to understanding women’s identities and how, reciprocally, women and “women’s issues” affect the state’s role and function. She argues that in India law and citizenship define for women not only the scope of political rights but also cultural identity and everyday life. Sunder Rajan delineates the postcolonial state in implicit contrast with the “enlightened,” postfeminist neoliberal state in the West. Her analysis wrestles with complex social realities, taking into account the influence of age, ethnicity, religion, and class on individual and group identities as well as the shifting, heterogeneous nature of the state itself. The Scandal of the State develops through a series of compelling case studies, each of which centers around an incident exposing the contradictory position of the Indian state vis-à-vis its female citizens and, ultimately, the inadequacy of its commitment to women’s rights. Sunder Rajan focuses on the custody battle over a Muslim child bride, the compulsory sterilization of mentally retarded women in state institutional care, female infanticide in Tamilnadu, prostitution as labor rather than crime, and the surrender of the female outlaw Phoolan Devi. She also looks at the ways the Uniform Civil Code presented many women with a stark choice between allegiance to their religion and community or the secular assertion of individual rights. Rich with theoretical acumen and activist passion, The Scandal of the State is a powerful critique of the mutual dependence of women and the state on one another in the specific context of a postcolonial modernity.
Women And The Post Colonial Indian Stale
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Author : Dr. Nilendra Bardiar
language : en
Publisher: K.K. Publications
Release Date : 2022-03-15
Women And The Post Colonial Indian Stale written by Dr. Nilendra Bardiar and has been published by K.K. Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-15 with Social Science categories.
The object of this book is to look into some aspects of law-making, policy formulations, and implementation of the constitutional and legal provisions etc. by the post-colonial state in India vis-à-vis gender justice and women "empowerment" and will try to examine the State's perspective on gender relations. This will lead to theorizing the nature and character of the Post-colonial State from a gender perspective. The book will also go into the participation of women in the movement for their rights and the role of women's socio-political organizations in the process. While the primary concern of the book will be the post-colonial period, yet, to put the things in the right perspective and to bring the context, it may be necessary to dwell briefly upon the pre-1947 period also (especially the period of 1920 onwards) to understand the working of the post-colonial state in the aftermath of Independence. During the colonial period, the construction of woman as an individual and as a social-familial being in the Gandhian discourse and Nehruvian vision's divergence from it in the post-colonial period is too important to be left out the scope of this book.
The Scandal Of The State
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Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
The Scandal Of The State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Citizenship categories.
A major postcolonial feminist theorist explores the gendered nature of citizenship and the state.
Female Infanticide In India
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Author : Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
Female Infanticide In India written by Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
Examines female infanticide in colonial and postcolonial India.
Woman Body Desire In Post Colonial India
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Author : Jyoti Puri
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Woman Body Desire In Post Colonial India written by Jyoti Puri and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with History categories.
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.