Nationalism, Colonialism and Gender in Indian Context

Paper Code: 
WMS-222
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

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.

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The Colonial encounter and the emergence of the women’s question.

 

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Early British Interventions in reference to women – Abolishing sati, widow remarriage.

 

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Construction of the Ancient Past: R C Dutta and others, Early Historical Works.

 

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Structural and Institutional Changes: Revenue systems and property relations, Class formation and social mobility

 

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Recasting Women: New Notions of conjugality and transforming the family

The emergence of the ‘bhadramahila’; schooling and fashioning the bhadramahila.

Essential Readings: 
  1. Orientalism: Constructing India; Abbe Dubois, Sir William Jones, Crooke, Prinsep and the Asiatic Society.
  2. James Mill and the History of British India.
  3. Spiritual India: Max Muller, Clarisse Dader from Uma Chakravarti, Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid ed. Recasting Women, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989
  4. Rammohan Roy, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar: The ‘authentic’ position of the shastras on customs, Lata Meni in Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid ed. Recasting Women, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1989
  5. Sumit Sarkar, Vidyasagar in Brahminical Society in Writing Social History, Delhi OUP, 1998.
  6. Cultural Crisis: Discussion on Sunil Gangopadhyaya, Shei Somoy
  7. Introduction to Recasting Women, op. cit.
  8. Rewriting History: The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai (chapter 2) Delhi, Kali for Women, 1998.
  9. Kumkum Sangari, Relating Histories, in Svati Joshi ed. Rethinking English, Delhi, Trianka, 1991;
  10. Vir Bharat Talwar, chapter from Rasa Kashi;
  11. Himani Banerji, Inventing Subjects, Delhi, Tulika, 2001.
  12. Sir V Lal, Kunti’s Cry: Indentured Women in Fiji Plantations, in J Krishnamurti, Women in Colonial India, op. cit.; Writings of Peggy Mohan;
  13. Radha Kumar, Family and Factory: Women in Bombay Cotton Textile Industry, 1991-1939, in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989
  14. Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India, OUP, 1996
  15. Gail Minault, The Extended Family, Delhi, Chanakya, 1981
  16. Gandhiji, Women and the Nation: Madhu Kishwar, Gandhi on Women, EPW, 20, nos 40-41, October 5 and 12, 1985; Sujata Patel, Gandhi and Construction and Reconstruction of Women, EPW, February 20, 1988.
  17. Vikalp, Vol VII/no 3,4,5 1999/2000, Vikas Adhyan Kendra, Mumbai 
  18. Chakravarti, Uma & Sangari (ed) Myths and Market, Manohar, New Delhi, 1999
  19. Agarwal, Bina, Field of Her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  20. pp 9-19 The Colonial Legacy, pp 83-118 Consolidation of India as a Nation, in Bipin Chandra, Mridula Mukherjee and Adtya Mukherjee, India After Independence1947-2000, Penguin Books, New Delhi 2002
  21. Sarkar, Sumit, ‘Rammohaun Roy and the Break with the Past’, Joshi, V.C. (ed.), Rammohan Roy and the Process of Modernization in India, Vikas, Delhi 1975, pp 46-68
Academic Session: 
2018-19
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