Author: Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761934073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book examines the participation of the women of North India in the Indian nationalist movement, portraying how women's lives were significantly affected and reshaped by their involvement in the freedom struggle. The author discusses how women's participation in this mass movement was encouraged by `the domestication of the public sphere' so that they could enter the public domain without being alienated from their domestic lives. She argues that the raised consciousness engendered by women's participation in the freedom struggle paved the way for a gradually evolving idea of women's emancipation.
Women in the Indian National Movement
Author: Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761934073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book examines the participation of the women of North India in the Indian nationalist movement, portraying how women's lives were significantly affected and reshaped by their involvement in the freedom struggle. The author discusses how women's participation in this mass movement was encouraged by `the domestication of the public sphere' so that they could enter the public domain without being alienated from their domestic lives. She argues that the raised consciousness engendered by women's participation in the freedom struggle paved the way for a gradually evolving idea of women's emancipation.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780761934073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This book examines the participation of the women of North India in the Indian nationalist movement, portraying how women's lives were significantly affected and reshaped by their involvement in the freedom struggle. The author discusses how women's participation in this mass movement was encouraged by `the domestication of the public sphere' so that they could enter the public domain without being alienated from their domestic lives. She argues that the raised consciousness engendered by women's participation in the freedom struggle paved the way for a gradually evolving idea of women's emancipation.
Women in Modern India
Author: Geraldine Forbes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521268127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed their lives, enabling them to take part in public life. Through the women's own accounts, the author has compiled an accessible and immediate record of their achievements over the past two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521268127
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed their lives, enabling them to take part in public life. Through the women's own accounts, the author has compiled an accessible and immediate record of their achievements over the past two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.
Women at War
Author: Vera Hildebrand
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR). They served under Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian National Army. Because the creation of an Indian all-female regiment of combat soldiers was a radical military innovation in 1943, and because the role of women in today’s broader context of Indian culture has become a prevalent and pressing issue, the extensive testimony of the surviving veterans of this unit is timely and urgent. The history of these brave women soldiers is little known, their extraordinary service and the role played by Bose remains largely unexplored. In the years since the RJR surrender in 1945, the story of Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani Regiment of female combatants as signature symbols of both the national fight for independence and of Indian women’s struggle for gender equality has taken on aspects of myth. Lengthy interviews with the veteran Ranis together with archival research comprise the evidence that separates the myth of the Bengali hero and his jungle warrior maidens from historical fact, and this resulting book presents an accurate narrative of the Ranis. The facts are nearly as impressive as the legend.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682473163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Among the more improbable events of the Asia-Pacific Theater in World War II was the creation in Singapore of a corps of female Indian combat soldiers, the Rani of Jhansi Regiment (RJR). They served under Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian National Army. Because the creation of an Indian all-female regiment of combat soldiers was a radical military innovation in 1943, and because the role of women in today’s broader context of Indian culture has become a prevalent and pressing issue, the extensive testimony of the surviving veterans of this unit is timely and urgent. The history of these brave women soldiers is little known, their extraordinary service and the role played by Bose remains largely unexplored. In the years since the RJR surrender in 1945, the story of Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani Regiment of female combatants as signature symbols of both the national fight for independence and of Indian women’s struggle for gender equality has taken on aspects of myth. Lengthy interviews with the veteran Ranis together with archival research comprise the evidence that separates the myth of the Bengali hero and his jungle warrior maidens from historical fact, and this resulting book presents an accurate narrative of the Ranis. The facts are nearly as impressive as the legend.
Recasting Women
Author: Kumkum Sangari
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813515809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The political and social life of India in the last decade has given rise to a variety of questions concerning the nature and resilience of patriarchal systems in a transitional and post-colonial society. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recognize that every aspect of reality is gendered, and that such a recognition involves a dismantling of the ideological presuppositions of the so-called gender neutral ideologies, as well as the boundaries of individual disciplines.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813515809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The political and social life of India in the last decade has given rise to a variety of questions concerning the nature and resilience of patriarchal systems in a transitional and post-colonial society. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume recognize that every aspect of reality is gendered, and that such a recognition involves a dismantling of the ideological presuppositions of the so-called gender neutral ideologies, as well as the boundaries of individual disciplines.
Mother India
Author: Katherine Mayo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Women's Struggle
Author: Aparna Basu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Gandhi, Women, and the National Movement, 1920-47
Author: Anup Taneja
Publisher: Har-Anand Publications
ISBN: 9788124110768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This Book Critically Analyses The Success Achieved By Gandhi In Mobilizing Women On A Mass Scale For The Cause Of The Country`S Independence.
Publisher: Har-Anand Publications
ISBN: 9788124110768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This Book Critically Analyses The Success Achieved By Gandhi In Mobilizing Women On A Mass Scale For The Cause Of The Country`S Independence.
Assamese Women in Indian Independence Movement
Author: Guptajit Pathak
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183242332
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN: 9788183242332
Category : Assam (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Role of Women
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement
Author: Valerie Sherer Mathes
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Founded in the late nineteenth century, the Women’s National Indian Association was one of several reform associations that worked to implement the government’s assimilation policy directed at Native peoples. The women of the WNIA combined political action with efforts to improve health and home life and spread Christianity on often remote reservations. During its more than seventy-year history, the WNIA established over sixty missionary sites in which they provided Native peoples with home-building loans, founded schools, built missionary cottages and chapels, and worked toward the realization of reservation hospitals. Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement reveals the complicated intersections of gender, race, and identity at the heart of Indian reform. This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA’s founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA’s role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826361838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Founded in the late nineteenth century, the Women’s National Indian Association was one of several reform associations that worked to implement the government’s assimilation policy directed at Native peoples. The women of the WNIA combined political action with efforts to improve health and home life and spread Christianity on often remote reservations. During its more than seventy-year history, the WNIA established over sixty missionary sites in which they provided Native peoples with home-building loans, founded schools, built missionary cottages and chapels, and worked toward the realization of reservation hospitals. Gender, Race, and Power in the Indian Reform Movement reveals the complicated intersections of gender, race, and identity at the heart of Indian reform. This collection of essays offers a new interpretation of the WNIA’s founding, argues that the WNIA provided opportunities for indigenous women, creates a new space in the public sphere for white women, and reveals the WNIA’s role in broader national debates centered on Indian land rights and the political power of Christian reform.