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.
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"This volume on women in modern India is extremely well researched and well thought out." Joan P. Mencher, Journal of Developing Areas
"Forbes's volume is at once a celebration and an exhortation. It is a celebration both of feminist scholarship on India and of women's achievements there under the most contraining circumstances of colonial, nationlist, and postcolonial patriarchies. It is also an exhortation to discover and preserve more women's records, to write more women's histories, and `to include gender in [all our] conceptual frameworks'(9)." Sumathi Ramaswamy, The Historian
"Forbes's Women in Modern India is an ambitious survey that narrates the many stories of women involved in the social reform, nationalist, and post-Independence women's rights movements." Brenda Cossman, SIGNS
"Forbes's volume is at once a celebration and an exhortation. It is a celebration both of feminist scholarship on India and of women's achievements there under the most contraining circumstances of colonial, nationlist, and postcolonial patriarchies. It is also an exhortation to discover and preserve more women's records, to write more women's histories, and `to include gender in [all our] conceptual frameworks'(9)." Sumathi Ramaswamy, The Historian
"Forbes's Women in Modern India is an ambitious survey that narrates the many stories of women involved in the social reform, nationalist, and post-Independence women's rights movements." Brenda Cossman, SIGNS
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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 last two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.
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Rammohun Roy's (1772-1833) name is usually listed first among those of nineteenth-century reformers concerned with improving women's status. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
petition politics, tebhaga movement, social feminism, franchise issue, disobedience movement, male reformers, dowry murders, child widow, adult franchise, female education, dowry deaths, organizing secretary, foreign cloth, jute mills, female seclusion, missionary women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Delhi, Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu, Pandita Ramabai, Begum Shah Nawaz, Home Dept, Iswar Chandra, Brahmo Samaj, Indira Gandhi, New York, Sister Subbalakshmi, Annual Report, Kulsum Sayani, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Subhas Bose, Muslim League, Oxford University Press, Begum Rokeya, Communist Party, Renuka Ray, Amrit Kaur, Aruna Asaf Ali, Geraldine Forbes, National Social Conference, Quit India New!
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Rammohun Roy's (1772-1833) name is usually listed first among those of nineteenth-century reformers concerned with improving women's status. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
petition politics, tebhaga movement, social feminism, franchise issue, disobedience movement, male reformers, dowry murders, child widow, adult franchise, female education, dowry deaths, organizing secretary, foreign cloth, jute mills, female seclusion, missionary women Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Delhi, Indian National Congress, Sarojini Naidu, Pandita Ramabai, Begum Shah Nawaz, Home Dept, Iswar Chandra, Brahmo Samaj, Indira Gandhi, New York, Sister Subbalakshmi, Annual Report, Kulsum Sayani, Muthulakshmi Reddy, Subhas Bose, Muslim League, Oxford University Press, Begum Rokeya, Communist Party, Renuka Ray, Amrit Kaur, Aruna Asaf Ali, Geraldine Forbes, National Social Conference, Quit India New!
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- Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text, Edited and with an Introduction by Mrinalini Sinha by Katherine Mayo on 5 pages
- Indian Women: From Purdah to Modernity by B. R. Nanda on 5 pages
- Memoirs of an Indian Woman (Foremother Legacies) by Shudha Mazumdar on 5 pages
- An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life (Foremother Legacies : Autobiographies and Memoirs of Women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin) by Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal on 4 pages
- Mahatma Gandhi by Jawaharlal Nehru on 4 pages
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- Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya: A Biography (Modern Indian Greats) by Reena Nanda on page 41, page 101, and Back Matter
- Women's Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English by Eunice de Souza in Front Matter, page 127, and Back Matter
- The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850–1920 by Padma Anagol on page 3, page 5, and page 9
- Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities (Routledge Research in Gender and History) by Antoinette Burton on page 158, and page 159
- Sexuality, Obscenity, And Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India by Charu Gupta on page 129, and Back Matter
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