The Veiled Women draws on a large range of popular sources such as folk songs, oral traditions and interviews as well as statistical data and archival material to explore major issues regarding the position of women in North India. Covering a period of a hundred years, Prem Chowdhry explores women's participation in the process of production and reproduction especially among landholding classes; the exclusion of women from the control of resources; the consequences of the new agricultural technologies on women and their work; and the resistance of patriarchial society to a change in the legal position of women.

The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana 1880-1990

History

Chowdhry, Prem

Asia

Oxford University Press

The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana

Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This book deals with the widespread phenomenon of contentious marriages and elopements in rural and semi-urban north India, specifically in the state of Haryana. Such challenges to norms and customs have escalated in recent times, and have become more complex due to the changing dynamics of power between, and within, caste groups. As the runaway couples question the authority of family, caste, and community, the traditional powers have become more dictatorial and often reacted with violence. The study shows how the colonial order strengthened caste endogamy and posed a serious challenge to inter-caste marriage. It also focuses on the intervention of the caste panchayats, and seeks to explain both how and why these patriarchal bodies wield extra-judicial power despite post-colonial changes in law and polity. Further, Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples demonstrates how the state colludes with the traditional forces to de-legitimize attempts to break out of the traditional system, thus often overriding the legal rights and human rights of individuals. The volume also discusses the implications of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956 for women, and shows how the emergence of a restricted marriage market, skewed sex ratio, an escalating dowry economy, and extensive unemployment have created a crisis of masculinity, power, and domination. Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples takes an inter-disciplinary approach and draws insights from sociology, gender studies, history, popular culture, politics, and law towards understanding the concepts of caste, community, and honor in contemporary Indian society. It is based on extensive fieldwork, interviews, official and legal documents, and archival material. It will be of interest to scholars of sociology, history, popular culture, politics, law, and gender studies.

Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Self-Help

Relationships

Political Economy of Production and Reproduction presents a nuanced understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. It critically examines the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present; the shifts in the political economy and culture of north India; and the constant reformulation and refashioning of patriarchal forces.Prem Chowdhry, who has worked for close to three decades in the area, presents an intensive case study of Haryana that spans the mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century, exploring its politics, economy, and society, with special emphasis on caste and gender. She offers a rich assessment of colonial legacy in the region, and how and why post-colonial changes in India--which established political democracy and norms of social equality--stand severely diluted and compromised indicating high economic and low social indices.Mapping significant social process and state policies that have shaped and reshaped north India, Political Economy of Production and Reproduction provides an insight into one of the richest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century--ruled by social forces determined by caste, custom, and community, instead of moving towards a modern egalitarian society and statehood.

Political Economy of Production and Reproduction

This collection showcases an in-depth understanding of social flux and cultural turmoil in contemporary north India. The author presents an intensive case study of Haryana, spanning the mid-nineteenth and twenty-first century. In doing so, she explores its politics, economy, and society with special emphasis on caste and gender. Divided into two sections-colonial and post-colonial-the essays critically examine the complex relationship of the colonial past with the present. Mapping significant social processes and state policies, the volume provides an insight into one of the wealthiest regions in India and why it continues to be regressive even in the twenty-first century.

Political Economy of Production and Reproduction: Caste, Custom, and Community in North India

Colonial India and the making of Empire cinema: Image, ideology and Identity

This book is an empirico-historical inquiry into the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.

Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Manchester University Press

This book examines the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people. Unique approach to the subject cinema and Empire from the perspective of the colonised rather than the coloniser. Vast amount of original research conducted in India contributing to a fresh perspective. Multifocal attitude which stretches through media and cultural studies, gender, film, imperial history, nationalism and postcolonialism.

Colonial India and the making of empire cinema: Image, ideology, and identity

Vistaar Publications

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