| Description |
1 online resource (255 pages) |
| Series |
""The Body, Gender and Culture"" |
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""The Body, Gender and Culture""
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Palace Politics: Zenana Life in the Late Colonial Princely State, c. 1890-1947; 2. Reading the Role of Women in Succession Disputes: Kenneth Fitze's A Review of Modem Practice in Regard to Successions in Indian States; 3. A Discourse on Desire: The Politics of Marriage Alliance in the Hindu Zenana; 4. Breaking (Male) Hearts: The Role of Love, Colonial Law and Maternal Authority in Two Disputed Royal Marriages in Early Twentieth-Century Kathiawar; 5. Troubles in Indore, the Maharaja's Women: Loving Dangerously |
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6. From 'Pardah to Parliament': Dynastic Politics and the Role of Royal Women in Postcolonial IndiaEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317314448 |
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1317314441 |
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9781317314431 |
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1317314433 |
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