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The New Cambridge History of India Vol. 4.2: Women in Modern India

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Women in Modern India

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 4.2

Edited by Geraldine Forbes

Publication Date 1996

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521268127

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521268127

Overview

In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history 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 women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organisations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
Women in Modern India in the Cambridge University Press online
catalogue.

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Frontmatter

Introduction

Reform in the nineteenth century: efforts to modernize women's roles

Education for women

The emergence of women's organizations

The movement for women's rights

Women in the nationalist movement

Women's work in colonial India

A time of transition

Women in independent India

Bibliographic essay

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