Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia

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How far did gender ideologies translate into practice in the Indian colonial context? Rhetoric and Reality highlights the interconnections between ‘the ideal’ and ‘the real’ with regard to gender and the colonial experience in South Asia. Exploring interlinkages between received perspectives on gender and colonial and indigenous discourses on ‘modernity’, it underlines key issues related to domesticity, body, and modernity. Focusing on subjects like motherhood, domestic ideologies, female infanticide, education, law, and social reform movements, the book provides numerous case studies from across the subcontinent. Various essays explore the reciprocity and contestation between colonial and Indian agency and recipiency. They also recover subaltern agency through investigation of interfaces with servants, pupils, nurses and plaintiffs. This topical and interdisciplinary collection brings together scholars from South Asia, North America, and United Kingdom. It will lay the foundation for new research on themes of childhood, servants, nursing, and women of minority communities. This volume will be a significant read for students and scholars of modern Indian history, gender studies, literature, sociology as well as those interested in cross-cultural and comparative studies on gender and the colonial experience.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Avril A. Powell

Avril A. Powell is Senior Lecturer in the History of South Asia at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United Kingdom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom.  Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular emphasis on education, social and political organizations, the culture of travel, missionaries and autobiographical narratives.  Her other publications include Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (2007), and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (co-edited with Avril A. Powell, 2006).

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Title
Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
0195677048
Length
viii+320p., Notes; 23cm.
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