Domesticity in Colonial India: What Women Learned When Men Gave Them Advice
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1st ed.
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ISBN
0195667972
Length
xviii+235p., Illustrations.
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This book is one of recent studies which place the personal, emotional, the familial in historical context and highlight the space of the home in the world. In colonial India, the reform agenda was in the process of thrashing out rules governing home and family life, a process fundamentally linked to visions of nation and its components. Such politicization of the private space also meant that women, through advice literature, were offered participation in a 'new ...
