This paper attempts to address the manner in which the question of women emerged in India with the advent of British and further evolves with the idea of Nationalism.
The Colonial encounter and the emergence of the women’s question.
Early British Interventions in reference to women – Abolishing sati, widow remarriage
Construction of the Ancient Past: R C Dutta and others, Early Historical Works.
Structural and Institutional Changes: Revenue systems and property relations, Class formation and social mobility
Recasting Women: New Notions of conjugality and transforming the family
The emergence of the ‘bhadramahila’; schooling and fashioning the bhadramahila.